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When former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said last fall that his earlier enthusiasm for corn - based ethanol production in the United States was a mistake, he was conceding something that had long been obvious: the practice of diverting food crops to biofuels has contributed to food shortages and driven up prices for staples across the globe.

In 1979, when ethanol was called gasohol, Lunz saw an ad in a newspaper for an on - farm ethanol plant.

Back in 1992, when I had started losing my hearing, a friend lent me a jar full of newly collected velvet asities preserved in ethanol to use for some anatomical research.

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.

When the purse strings do open, they tend to support projects with well - defined constituencies: farmers whose corn can be distilled into ethanol to mix with gasoline, for instance.

When existing corn is used for ethanol, what comes out of the tailpipe doesn't change and what is taken out of the atmosphere doesn't change either because the corn would be grown anyway.

When ethanol prices at the pump rise for whatever reason, it becomes economically advantageous for drivers of dual - fuel vehicles to fill up with gasoline.

Monroe Energy, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines that operates the Trainer refinery complex in Pennsylvania, said the EPA's decision not to cut 2013 biofuel targets did not take into account that companies might need to carry over some ethanol credits for use in 2014, when it finalized the 2013 targets.

«When you look at what our ethanol production is and compare that against what our demand for transportation fuels is, we won't get there,» says Virginia Lacy, a biofuels consultant at the Rocky Mountain Institute, a nonprofit energy policy organization in Colorado.

When it comes to using plant waste to mitigate climate change, most people think of turning it into ethanol or biodiesel for use as a fuel.

Khanna says that a price on carbon would be one way to equalize the cost of using gasoline and ethanol for consumers when filling up their tank.

The plants, which include many grasses targeted for cellulosic ethanol, can be harvested when needed and, given their hardiness, grow on marginal land.

When you account for these factors, corn ethanol — currently the most widely produced biofuel in the United States — generates about 43 percent less carbon dioxide than gasoline.

Corn gluten meal is a byproduct obtained when corn is processed into ethanol for your car or corn syrup.

Based on the just released Low Carbon Fuel Standard prepared by the University of California for the Governor, «regular» gasoline as a value of 85 — 92 g CO2 eq / MJ, while natural gas has a value of ~ 80 g CO2 eq / MJ, electricity in California has an average value of 27 g CO2 eq / MJ (when used to drive an electric vehicle), and cellulosic ethanol derived from municipal solid waste is ~ 5 g CO2 eq / MJ.

To the «hatchet job» inference (# 177), I listened with my ears and nobody else's to the May 6th «Fresh Air» interview, when Gore moved from an ethanol / food price debate, to his joke about some minister's absurd believe that Katrina was New Orleans» punishment for a gay pride parade, to his clear inference that Myanmar and, previously, Bangladesh, are part of an emerging consensus that the trend towards more Category 5 and stronger storms appears to be linked to AGW, specifically the heating of the upper oceans, driving convection energy, etc..

For example: How much grassland and prairies are plowed herbicided insecticided fertilized and otherwise molested into non existence to grow corn for biofuels, when grass makes better ethanol than corn anywFor example: How much grassland and prairies are plowed herbicided insecticided fertilized and otherwise molested into non existence to grow corn for biofuels, when grass makes better ethanol than corn anywfor biofuels, when grass makes better ethanol than corn anyway.

There were restrictions when the U.S. had the corn ethanol tax credit (meant only for U.S. ethanol), but this was eliminated when the tax credit was eliminated.

Bioenergy challenges a sustainable food future most directly when government policy causes diversion of food crops into ethanol or biodiesel for transportation.

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.

For example, a 2012 study headed by Michael Wang of the Argonne National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy projected that the corn - based ethanol found at practically all U.S. fuel pumps would cut carbon emissions by around 34 percent in 2015 (Table 7), even when considering changes in land uFor example, a 2012 study headed by Michael Wang of the Argonne National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy projected that the corn - based ethanol found at practically all U.S. fuel pumps would cut carbon emissions by around 34 percent in 2015 (Table 7), even when considering changes in land ufor the U.S. Department of Energy projected that the corn - based ethanol found at practically all U.S. fuel pumps would cut carbon emissions by around 34 percent in 2015 (Table 7), even when considering changes in land use.

This received a big boost in Brazil, when companies with cane - based ethanol distilleries realized that burning bagasse, the fibrous material left after the sugar syrup is extracted, could simultaneously produce heat for fermentation and generate electricity that they could sell to the local utility.

When that is adjusted for ethanol's lower energy content, it means ethanol will displace only 1.8 % of total U.S. oil imports in 2015.

The LCFS contradicts the sound judgment of Congress when it passed the 2007 Energy Independence Security Act and singled out the importance of domestic ethanol for our nation's environment, energy security, and economy.

It's ironic that misinformed environmentalists blame ethanol for deforestation, when in some parts of the world, it's actually helping to reduce respiratory disease, infant mortality, and black carbon soot from burning trees.

Because so little energy is required to cultivate crops such as switchgrass for cellulosic ethanol production, and because electricity can be co-produced using the residues of such cellulosic fuel production, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for celluslosic ethanol when compared to gasoline are greater than 100 per cent.

It does not release carbon that would otherwise stay stored underground, as occurs with fossil fuel use, but when starch, such as corn, is used for ethanol production much energy, including fossil - fuel energy, is consumed in the process of fertilizing, plowing, and harvesting.

Sugarcane scores well when grown on degraded and abandoned croplands due to its high efficiency as a feedstock for ethanol, but again, as in all cases, its carbon payback time surges when its cultivation replaces tropical forest or savanna.

Food prices have also increased dramatically when food crops are used for ethanol, causing hardship in poor communities.

Even when the gasoline emissions catch up with maize ethanol, the global - warming damage from the maize ethanol emissions is greater, because they have been in the atmosphere for longer.

When demand for corn ethanol rose, so did corn prices, as did the acres diverted to corn production.

An ethanol mandate that causes little economic harm when unemployment rates are low, corn production is high, and China's demand for U.S. corn imports is low could inflict severe harm when the opposite conditions obtain — as they do today.

I was reminded of Canute's story when considering the latest Environmental Protection Agency numbers for cellulosic ethanol — a hoped - for alternative to corn - based ethanol made from switchgrass and wood chips.

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.

http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/energy/biofuels/energy-briefs/history-of-ethanol-production-and-policy «Today's ethanol industry began in the 1970s when petroleum - based fuel became expensive and environmental concerns involving leaded gasoline created a need for an octane.

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.

In years where we have a bumper crop of corn, and produce more than we need for feed, the market to distilleries will provide built in price supports; the DDGS from the other ethanol feedstocks will provide some cushion to food production in years when the corn crop is bad.

The EPA «will not be able to use an international indirect land use change when it estimates the carbon footprint of ethanol and biodiesel» for «at least six years.»

... Many people argue that making corn - based ethanol is more of an agricultural subsidy for farmers than it is a sound environmental policy.Things get even dodgier for biofuels when you look at the land area that would be needed to grow fuel crops.

What we would like to see from Toyota and other car makers: More affordable very fuel - efficient and low - emission hybrids, plug - in hybrids, all cars flex fuel so that they can run on cellulosic ethanol when it is available (the fuel sensors required for that are apparently only about $ 30 - no reason not to include them in all cars), diesel - hybrids with the latest emission technology (to run on biodiesel where available, of course) and, as soon as battery technology is ready, affordable electric - only vehicles.

Why sell a bushel of a given crop for $ 5 for feed / food when you could sell it for $ 15 to make ethanol?

When EPA green - lighted E15 use, it knew E15 vehicle testing was ongoing but decided not to wait for the results — most likely to raise the permissible concentration level of ethanol in fuels so that greater volumes could be used, as required by the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

Given the razor - thin spread between supply and demand for oil, I'm still not convinced that our corn ethanol production to date has not been a net positive when you factor everything and not just environment.