Sentences with phrase «gallons of ethanol annually»

The United States is using 40 million acres of cropland (Iowa plus New Jersey) and 45 % of its corn crop to produce 14 billion gallons of ethanol annually.

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This would open the market to ethanol that could be produced from the «420 million tons of biomass easily harvestable in the U.S.» Sharp also said that the ethanol generated from that biomass could replace at least half — about 45 billion gallons — of the oil the U.S. imports annually.

Washington originally figured the industry could produce 1 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol annually by 2013, so that's where it set the mandate for last year.

If they succeed, mandatory sales of corn ethanol could significantly exceed 15 billion gallons annually.