Sentences with phrase «federal ethanol mandates»

Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, a leading supporter of corn - based ethanol, says he'll call for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's resignation if Pruitt doesn't work to fulfill federal ethanol mandates.

BIOFUELS: Renewable fuels groups are satisfied with President Trump's planned compromise over federal ethanol mandates that would allow year - round sales.

In dueling TV ads, foes of the federal ethanol mandate claim that it «doubles greenhouse gas emissions,» while the ethanol lobby says that «the oil industry is lying» and the mandate will lead to lower emissions.

The federal ethanol mandate mut be rescinded, say CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen.

Not exact matches

The United States expanded its federal biofuels mandate in a 2007 law to reach 36 billion gallons by 2022, with up to 15 billion gallons coming from corn ethanol and the balance from so - called advanced biofuels like cellulosic ethanol.

Obama has, however, also been a supporter of ethanol made primarily from corn — a prominent industry in his home state of Illinois — and recently told farmers he supports federal mandates to make nine billion gallons (34 billion liters) of ethanol to use as fuel this year.

The U.S. is about to hit the «blending wall,» the saturation point for ethanol use, because it does not have the infrastructure to meet the federal mandate for renewable - fuels use with ethanol.

Cruz creditably withstood the perennial temptation — among Republicans and Democrats alike — to bow down to Big Corn and the federal mandate for ethanol that has been such a boon to Iowa corn farmers and bane if you care about food prices, greenhouse gas emissions, herbicide use or the loss of wild vegetation in the Midwest that is an important food source for monarchs and habitat for other wildlife.

Logically, taking your assumption that the refineries don't want to change oxygenates, then we definitely don't need any Federal regs to mandate ethanol.

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.

Members of a party that ostensibly opposes regulation and federal mandates went full mafia - protection - racket to defend the federal government mandate that keeps Big Ethanol raking in the cash.

It is now clear that the federal corn ethanol mandate has driven up food prices, strained agricultural markets, increased competition for arable land and promoted conversion of uncultivated land to grow crops.

To make sure demand for ethanol will grow substantially, the association wants a federal mandate that all carmakers receiving federal aid would make only cars that can run on a blend of up to 85 percent ethanol, starting with the 2010 models.

Perhaps she was not referring to the ancient history (1970's and 80's) of ethanol but to the more recent federal mandates that have caused the problem the article is discussing??

Ethanol now consumes more corn than animal agriculture, a fact directly attributable to the federal mandate.

At issue is whether to suspend a five - year - old federal mandate requiring more ethanol in gasoline each year, a policy that has diverted almost half of the domestic corn supply from animal feedlots to ethanol refineries, driven up corn prices and plantings and created a desperate competition for corn as drought grips the nation's farm belt.

Federal law mandates that oil companies use 12 billion gallons of renewable fuels such as ethanol in this year, rising to 15 billion gallons by 2015.

And a venture capitalist will build an ethanol plant with readily available corn, and a federal gasahol mandate.

Though Valero has opposed Federal ethanol blending mandates in the past, now that it appears that government mandates are here to stay for the foreseeable future, and it can snap up some of Verasun's assets at sale prices, the purchase makes sense for the San Antonio - based firm.