Sentences with phrase «ethanol subsidies for»

He'll be running against a guy who has been against ethanol subsidies for years.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper also unveiled $ 1.5 billion in subsidies for ethanol and biodiesel production this past summer.

Also in the Post, Terence Corcoran wonders whether Corn Cob Bob — the friendly spokesmascot for the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association — will survive its ongoing battle with the C.D. Howe Institute, which recently released a report questioning the environmental and economic justifications for corn ethanol subsidies.

In 2008, subsidies to produce corn ethanol reduced the amount of corn available for food.

Meanwhile, new reports in the United States showed that two million acres of native grasslands have been converted to corn and soy monocultures in the past five years alone, driven in part by government subsidies and targets for the ethanol industry.

«GMA applauds today's overwhelming and bi-partisan support for an amendment offered by Senators Feinstein and Coburn to end wasteful subsidies for corn ethanol.

Continuing the $ 1 - per - gallon subsidy for cellulosic ethanol and the renewable fuel standards will also help.

When you go to Washington to get stuff, sometimes you get the wrong stuff, like subsidies for corn ethanol — the wrong feedstock for the wrong fuel.

I don't see how our subsidies for making ethanol from corn, for example, spill over to the production of high fructose corn syrup.

The World Bank has called for an end to ethanol subsidies.

Be sure and thank your legislators for corn - based ethanol subsidies.

At least I hope that is what the $ 150 billion is for... it better not be subsidies for ethanol, clean coal, or other just bad ideas.

We could start by phasing out all subsidies for the production of fossil fuels and ethanol.

The food shortages and riots that have wracked the world in recent months, from the Philippines to Egypt to Haiti, have starkly dramatized the moral bankruptcy inherent in our government's continued subsidies for the production of corn ethanol.

He's terrible on trade, supporting maintenance of the tariff on imported Brazilian ethanol made from sugarcane, and has pushed for a dramatic expansion of the subsidies for ethanol production in this country.

Setting aside the fact that in many cases clean energy competes on its own merits — for instance in the case of well ‐ situated wind farms and Brazilian sugarcane ethanol — this analysis shows that the global direct subsidy for fossil fuels is around ten times the subsidy for renewables.

Trillions are spent on war where oil is the key political factor, hundreds of billions on subsidies for rich companies that reap huge short - term profits, both in fossil fuels and pseudo-green technologies like corn ethanol and biodiesel.

(This includes ending subsidies for the ethanol program.)

For different reasons, sugar subsidies, ethanol subsidies, corn and wheat subsidies, really just about any farm subsidies that aren't based on preventing soil erosion.

(Read here for more on this: «Sanity Alert: Senate Votes to End Billions in Ethanol Subsidies.»)

The provision is the latest installment of the ethanol subsidy, a handout that has cost American taxpayers billions of dollars during the last three decades, with little to show for it.

We should phase out subsidies for corn ethanol as cellulose and other forms for making alternate fuels come on line.

The fifth point is that no coherent justification has ever been given for ethanol subsidies or mandates once its pollution and CO2 - emission reduction claims were exploded.

Along with EV charging, Ebell said the inclusion of ethanol subsidies in the amended resolution could spell trouble for the effort if it is brought up again in New Orleans.

No coal - fired ethanol refineries should be eligible for federal subsidies.

But the study comes at a time when farmers and producers are already receiving federal subsidies to grow more corn for ethanol under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

Mandates and subsidies for fossil - fuel intensive biofuels such as corn - derived ethanol are so large that eliminating or reducing them would almost certainly do more than a carbon tax to curb these fuels» artificial price advantage.

From 2007 to 2013, corn ethanol interests spent $ 158 million lobbying for more mandates and subsidies — and $ 6 million in campaign contributions — for a fuel that reduces mileage, damages engines, requires enormous amounts of land, water and fertilizer, and from stalk to tailpipe emits more carbon dioxide than gasoline.

It amounts to a subsidy of roughly one dollar per gallon of ethanol, and an even larger subsidy for biodiesel of roughly two dollars per gallon.

We have wasted billions of dollars on such «strong» policies as coal - derived synfuels; subsidies for the commercialization of wind, solar and electric cars; and worst of all, the ethanol mandate.

Former OMB analyst Ken Glozer demolishes the energy - security rationale for ethanol subsidies in Corn Ethanol: Who Pays, Who Benefits (April 2011), published by the conservative Hoover Instiethanol subsidies in Corn Ethanol: Who Pays, Who Benefits (April 2011), published by the conservative Hoover InstiEthanol: Who Pays, Who Benefits (April 2011), published by the conservative Hoover Institution.

Corn ethanol receives billions in subsidies despite conclusive science indicating its inefficient production provides little or no additional energy other than what is used for its production, and its ecological destructiveness in terms of land, water and climate.

The «market conditions» that these ethanol producers are referring to is the fact that the average price of ethanol has dropped some 30 percent since May, as market subsidies combined with a lack of infrastructure for its delivery and use have created a surplus of the renewable fuel.

Probably because ethanol mandates and electric car subsidies are lucrative sources of federal grants, loans, subsidies and tax credits for «alternative fuels» and electric cars.

They also spoke out against the former president's calls for larger ethanol subsidies.»

The growing sense of global urgency over our twin crisis — climate change and energy security — is now driving businesses to become green, consumers to demand green and policy makers to drive policies to accelerate the market adoption of green products.The most notorious subsidy is the 51 - cent gas credit for ethanol.»

As a source for ethanol, corn kernels are economically viable only because of high federal subsidies.

Also, some would consider subsidies for biofuels, such as ethanol, as falling within this category of climate - friendly subsidies, but clearly that is a matter of considerable controversy.

Clearing land to grow crops for «green» biofuel and mandating tree planting to reverse the effects??? Brazil's enthusiasm for ethanol has contributed to deforrestation and all the attendant destruction of biodiversity and yet we encourage these alternate fuels with additional subsidies.....

«Phasing out current subsidies for wind, solar, ethanol, and fossil fuels» could be meritorious on its own, but how much does this generate, and does it even pass a political laugh - test?

But the models fail to account for dynamic reactions to a corn crop reduction (in this case a simple and very cost efficient response would be to end corn ethanol subsidies, thus redirecting corn to food rather than fuel, ending an inefficient industry and encouraging ethanol industries in tropical nations using sugar cane, which makes a lot more sense than corn ethanol).

«It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for (U.S.) first generation ethanol,» Reuters reported Gore saying during a green energy summit in Athens.

This week's senate vote to end subsidies for ethanol has left campaigners worried the renewables sector is next, that tax credits and deductions will be scrapped in favour of the Republican austerity measure to reduce the deficit.

They say the technological fixes also distract from more challenging social reforms like slowing the rate of population growth, shifting away from crops like corn ethanol that don't put food on the table, or ending subsidies for livestock production, which currently eats up an appalling 75 percent of the world's agricultural land.

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Federal and state subsidies for ethanol helped keep the fuel in production when ethanol prices fell with crude oil and gasoline prices in the early 1980s.

As our host states above, ethanol from starch (corn or wheat, as used in the EU) was supposed to be a pump primer for cellulosic ethanol, but has become an end in itself as an agricultural subsidy.

Specific subsidies for ethanol and wind power have lapsed, perhaps temporarily, but both still receive valuable preferences in the form of the federal Renewable Fuel Standard and numerous state renewable portfolio standards.

There's money to be made in developing alternative energy — even when it's not so green, like the ethanol industry that has been collecting subsidies for decades.

have also introduced S. 530, which would limit the VEETC to «advanced biofuels,» thus ending the subsidy for conventional corn ethanol.