25 More Biofuel Refineries Needed + 3,000 Jobs Created CARB touts the fact that in order to produce the 1.5 billion
gallons of biofuels needed in the state, an additional 25 biofuel production facilities will be required, creating more than 3,000 new jobs, mostly in rural areas.
The Renewable Fuel Standard, passed as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, requires the nation to produce 36 billion
gallons of biofuels by 2022.
The United States will not be able to meet the mandate to use 36 billion
gallons of biofuels by 2022, reported the U.S. Energy Information Administration in December.
7.5 billion
gallons of biofuels per year by 2012 http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/25/technology/biodieselboom.biz2/
The first approved and largest supplier of genetically modified yeasts with over 2 billion
gallons of biofuels produced using our technology.
The oil industry unsuccessfully urged the EPA to lower the federal mandate to use 16.55 billion
gallons of biofuels in 2013, saying it would unduly burden refiners.
He said his work could potentially generate 100 million
gallons of biofuel from less than 25,000 acres of forestland.
Troubles With Ethanol The U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 [pdf] set a target to produce 9 billion
gallons of biofuel in 2008.
According to this Dallas News article, SouthWest is making a move to buy 3 million
gallons of biofuel a year from Red Rock Biofuels.
Even if we could manage only 70 billion
gallons of biofuel, that would reduce our oil imports more than 20 % or enough to stop importing middle eastern oil.
We can make close to 100 billion
gallons of biofuel per year from 1 billion tons of biomass.
In the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, Congress said that of the 36 billion
gallons of biofuel it wants produced by 2022, 15 billion gallons must come from corn - based ethanol and at least 16 billion gallons from cellulosic biofuels.
Between 1997 and 2007 US farmland declined by ~ 33 million acres [1]: if that land were put back into corn production, it could produce 14 billion
gallons of biofuel ethanol [2] plus the additional food value of the DDGS.
Not exact matches
INEOS Bio (which is the
biofuel arm
of petrochemical giant INEOS) and developer New Planet Energy say they will use the loan guarantee to build the «INEOS BioEnergy Center,» near Vero Beach, Florida, that will produce 8 million
gallons of advanced
biofuels and 6 MW
of biomass power from plant waste and trash per year.
«We estimate that this
biofuel would cost the airline industry $ 5.31 /
gallon, which is less than most
of the reported prices
of renewable jet fuel produced from other oil crops or algae,» said Deepak Kumar, a postdoctoral researcher at Illinois, who led the analysis.
If 60 million acres
of land, approximately the area
of Oregon, were given over to algae cultivation, «we could reasonably produce 300 billion
gallons of algae
biofuels per year.»
But 1 billion
gallons of cellulosic by 2020 is an achievable goal, he said, and if the United States is to meet its promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions, it must maintain a commitment to
biofuels.
If you then combine that with E85 fuel, which is 15 percent gasoline and 85 percent ethanol, you just got a 320 - mile - per -
gallon SUV because the efficiency times the
biofuel saving
of oil multiplies.
The Obama administration seems to agree, granting $ 786 million in 2009 for
biofuels research and setting up the
Biofuels Interagency Working Group to study how best to meet the renewable fuel standard mandated by Congress that will require increasing the amount
of renewable fuels, such as ethanol, to 36 billion
gallons by 2022.
Air Force energy director Dave King hopes that by 2016, 300 million
gallons of that total will come from alternative sources such as
biofuels, a move that he argues will increase the stability
of the force's fuel supply and reduce its vulnerability to cost fluctuations.
Municipalities are already fighting over water supplies with the booming
biofuels industry: citizens in the Illinois towns
of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a local ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million
gallons a day from the local aquifer to produce 100 million
gallons of ethanol a year.
Enzymes cost about 50 cents per
gallon of ethanol, so recycling or using fewer enzymes would make
biofuels more inexpensive.
But for
biofuels to really take flight — or at least achieve the global aviation fuel use goal
of at least 1 percent — a minimum
of five facilities capable
of churning out 100 million
gallons or more would have to be built.
Of course, the biofuel's ultimate price tag is yet to be determined as only «gallons» of it have been brewed compared with the more than 60 million gallons (225 million liters) of jet fuel consumed daily in the U.S
Of course, the
biofuel's ultimate price tag is yet to be determined as only «
gallons»
of it have been brewed compared with the more than 60 million gallons (225 million liters) of jet fuel consumed daily in the U.S
of it have been brewed compared with the more than 60 million
gallons (225 million liters)
of jet fuel consumed daily in the U.S
of jet fuel consumed daily in the U.S..
Increase
biofuels to 60 million
gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard
of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug ‐ in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recovery
Even with a federal
biofuels subsidy
of $ 1 per
gallon added in, the plant earned less from its biocrude sales in that quarter than it paid Butterball for its turkey leftovers.
The military's use
of biofuels originally sparked the ire
of some GOP members
of congress and the senate after it was widely reported that the military pays up to $ 26 a
gallon for some «advanced»
biofuels, which can be used as direct replacements for petroleum fuels used by ships and aircraft.
Last month, Sapphire Energy, an algae
biofuel company that participated in the Continental test flight, said it would be producing 1 million
gallons of diesel and jet fuel a year by 2011 (Greenwire, April 28).
When the law was enacted, U.S. EPA expected 16 billion
of the 36 billion
gallons would be cellulosic
biofuels.
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of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease
biofuels to 60 million
gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard
of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons
of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons
of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts
of American Power Act, 5/11/10.
These test will consume 18,000
gallons of the aviation
biofuel.
The Obama administration plans to meet the mandate
of Bush's 2007 U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act, to produce 36 billion
gallons a year
of ethanol and advanced
biofuels by 2022.
By 2022, I will make it a goal to have 6 billion
gallons of our fuel come from sustainable, affordable
biofuels and we'll make sure that we have the infrastructure to deliver that fuel in place.
The overwhelming challenge is how to produce enough
biofuel to supply even a fraction
of the more than 60 billion
gallons of jet fuel burned every year by the world's aircraft.
South America's largest country is the world's reigning ethanol king, producing 4.4 billion
gallons (16.5 billion liters)
of the
biofuel from sugarcane each year, on average.
It is important to note that more advanced
biofuels still receive tax support: cellulosic ethanol receives $ 1.01 per
gallon in tax credits, but that is set to expire at the end
of this year.
That so called «renewable fuels schedule» established in 2005 and update in 2007 requires an ever increasing amount
of biofuel to be blended into the nation's fuel supply until the total hits 36 billion
gallons in 2022.
Bush's proposal would be to increase our level
of biofuels production by 35 billion
gallons in the next 10 years (although some have informed me that this is actually for all alternative fuels, which would include coal to liquids).
To boost bioenergy production, Congress endowed
biofuels with subsidies that now amount to about $ 1 per
gallon of ethanol and $ 2 per
gallon of biodiesel.
By 2022, it was expected that 16 billion
gallons of cellulosic
biofuel would be produced, but a couple
of other things happened instead.
The blend wall still looms, and so does EPA's insistence on requiring millions
of gallons of phantom cellulosic
biofuels.
[18:45] Third, to create a market for alternative sources
of energy like solar, wind,, I'll require that 25 %
of our electricity comes renewable sources by 2025, and that we produce two billion
gallons of advanced cellulosic
biofuels by 2013.
Washington is already producing such low - carbon
biofuels, but has the potential to produce significantly more: used cooking oil, animal fat, canola, and cellulosic sources such as hybrid poplar trees could collectively generate hundreds
of millions
of gallons of clean fuels every year.
US Commercial - scale production
of cellulosic
biofuels reached about 20,000
gallons in late 2012, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Earlier this year, the U.S. EPA proposed a reduction in the cellulosic
biofuels portion
of the 2011 renewable fuel standard (RFS) to between 5 and 17.1 million
gallons, down drastically from the 250 million
gallons initially called for in the 2007 RFS.
EPA announced today proposed regulations to implement the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) for 2011 but said the goal
of 250 million
gallons of cellulosic
biofuels can not be met.
Equally insane, the Environmental Protection Agency's draft rule for 2013 required that refiners purchase 14 million
gallons of cellulosic
biofuels.
On a global scale, the
biofuels frenzy is diverting millions
of acres
of farmland from food crops, converting millions
of acres
of rainforest and other wildlife habitat into farmland, and employing billions
of gallons of water, to produce corn, jatropha, palm oil and other crops for use in producing politically correct biodiesel and other
biofuels.
In a nod to how hard it is to predict the future, the EPA has lowered the cellulosic
biofuel mandate from 500 billion
gallons to a less ambitious 8.65 million
gallons, which is 1.7 %
of the original planned requirement.
United Airlines last week began powering some
of its Los Angeles flights with
biofuel made from waste fats and inedible oils, the first carrier to power its regular commercial operations partly with renewable fuel; it will buy 15 million
gallons over three years.