Sentences with phrase «gallons of fuel ethanol»

In 2009 the world was on track to produce 19 billion gallons of fuel ethanol and nearly 4 billion gallons of biodiesel.

In 1980, the world produced scarcely 1 billion gallons of fuel ethanol.

In 2007 the world produced 13.1 billion gallons of fuel ethanol and 2.3 billion gallons of biodiesel.

In 2011, the world produced 23 billion gallons of fuel ethanol and nearly 6 billion gallons of biodiesel.

Not exact matches

The 2005 Energy Policy Act mandates a minimum of 7.5 billion gallons of domestic renewable - fuel production, which will overwhelmingly be corn - based ethanol, by 2012.

Since then, corn ethanol production has more than doubled to about 36.5 million gallons per day — meaning ethanol already is nearly 10 percent of U.S. fuel supply.

Congress in 2007 required that refiners blend 36 billion gallons of ethanol into fuel supply by 2022.

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.

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 company can produce more than 100 gallons of fuel per ton based on lab experiments because bacteria make more ethanol: «We aren't producing butanol, propanol, hexanol, octanol, and all the other alcohols,» Bolsen says.

Yet RangeFuels» fancy new ethanol plant, which will eventually pump out 100 million gallons of fuel a year, will feed mostly on wood chips.

«In the Southeast there is enough biomass from wood products alone to make 10 to 15 billion gallons of fuel a year,» says Mitch Mandich, CEO of Range Fuels, based in Broomfield, Colorado, the firm building what may be the first U.S. plant to make next - generation ethanol commercially.

One example isPanda Ethanol, which is building the largest biomass plant in the United Statesin Hereford, Texas, where it will use the waste of 3.5 milliongrazing cattle to fuel the production of approximately 115 million gallons ofethanol per year.

Buy a new load of gas for your lawn mower, which you hopefully ran dry last fall, and then either left dry or filled with ethanol - free fuel ($ 20 a gallon at a home good store!).

E85 is 85 % ethanol, it corrodes the fuel lines of cars not intended for E85, you get worse fuel economy per gallon burned, and it's not widely available.

-- All but 4.3 cents - per - gallon of the taxes on highway gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, and alternative fuels (Secs. 4041 (a) and 4081 (d)(1)-RRB--- Reduced rate of tax on partially exempt methanol or ethanol fuel (Sec. 4041 (m)-RRB--- Tax on retail sale of heavy highway vehicles (Sec. 4051 (c)-RRB--- Tax on heavy truck tires (Sec. 4071 (d)-RRB--- Annual use tax on heavy highway vehicles (Sec. 4481 (f)-RRB-

for example, someone from the ethanol lobby had a letter in the times pointing to some 300 000 000 (million) gallons of ethanol for road fuel produced i a recent year.

But the ethanol boosters are ignoring some unpleasant facts: Ethanol won't significantly reduce our oil imports; adding more ethanol to our gas tanks adds further complexity to our motor - fuel supply chain, which will lead to further price hikes at the pump; and, most important (and most astonishing), it may take more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than it actually coethanol boosters are ignoring some unpleasant facts: Ethanol won't significantly reduce our oil imports; adding more ethanol to our gas tanks adds further complexity to our motor - fuel supply chain, which will lead to further price hikes at the pump; and, most important (and most astonishing), it may take more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than it actually coEthanol won't significantly reduce our oil imports; adding more ethanol to our gas tanks adds further complexity to our motor - fuel supply chain, which will lead to further price hikes at the pump; and, most important (and most astonishing), it may take more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than it actually coethanol to our gas tanks adds further complexity to our motor - fuel supply chain, which will lead to further price hikes at the pump; and, most important (and most astonishing), it may take more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than it actually coethanol than it actually contains.

Last week the EPA dismissed a petition by the American Petroleum Institute seeking relief from the cellulosic ethanol mandate, which requires that oil refiners blend 8.65 million gallons of ethanol into the fuel supply by the end of 2012:

The renewable fuel standard passed by Congress calls for 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol in 2010, but the actual production capacity from experimental plants is only about 3 to 4 million gallons, he said.

And it Doesn't include the production of algae and duckweed, which is currently at 6,000 gallons per acre per year, for oil and ethanol respectively, plus co-product biomass that can go to feed or fuel depending on demand.

If it were to operate on 85 percent cellulosic ethanol or a similar proportion of biodiesel or renewable diesel fuel, it would be achieving hundreds of miles per gallon of petroleum - derived fuel.

The bill would eliminate the current mandate to blend 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol into fuel by 2022 and ban ethanol fuel content over ten percent.

Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.

If it were to operate on 85 percent cellulosic ethanol or a similar proportion of biodiesel fuel, it would be achieving hundreds of miles per gallon of petroleum - derived fuel.

A gallon of ethanol contains about 30 percent less energy than a gallon of gasoline; this is one of the reasons that the May 15th AAA Daily Fuel Gauge report shows that, on an energy - output basis, gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol is 58 cents more expensive than regular grade gasoline.

This summer, expensive and rare corn has left 26 ethanol plants idle — some for more than a year — removing 1.5 billion gallons of production, according to the industry trade group, the Renewable Fuels Association.

The reason is ethanol, which the federal government insists be blended into every gallon of motor fuel refined and sold in the United States.

During the period under evaluation by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, America's Soviet - style production quota for ethanol, a motor fuel distilled from corn, increased almost 4 billion gallons, or 104 billion pounds of maize.

In the USA today, ethanol is mandated to up to 10 % of gasoline motor fuel; 13 billion gallons / year ethanol are replacing 10 billon gallons / year octane equivalent gasoline (out of a total consumption of around 140 billion gallons / year).

These vehicles consume roughly 140 Billion gallons of gasoline, 60 Billion gallons of diesel fuel, and 9 Billion gallons of ethanol every year.

Each ethanol plant will have a production capacity of five million gallons per year (5 MGY) of fuel - grade ethanol.

And the fuel is much cheaper, because the shipping cost of locally made ethanol is much lower, and because part of the 51 cent per gallon ethanol blending subsidy is being passed on to consumers.

Pursuant to that law, an increasing amount of renewable fuel such as ethanol — rising to 36 billion gallons in 2022 — must be introduced into the market.

As noted previously on this site (here and here), Vilsack and the RFA tout a study by Iowa State University's Center for Agricultural Research and Development (CARD), which concluded that if ethanol production had remained at year 2000 levels, the U.S. motor fuel supply would have been billions of gallons smaller and, thus, significantly pricier in 2010 and 2011.

Unfortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency did just that last week, setting new quotas for 2012 that will require the nation's refiners to add 8.65 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol to America's fuel supplies.

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.

Oil Palm produces ~ 500 gallons / acre of biodiesel, and it's a perennial — less fuel for plowing & planting, and squeezing the oil out is less energy intensive than distilling ethanol.

Let's say it took 1 gallon of fossil fuel to make 1 gallon of ethanol.

But if it took a gallon of fossil fuels to make a gallon of ethanol, the gallon that you took out has to go back in.

So the final pool is 10 gallons - 1 gallon of ethanol and still 9 gallons of fossil fuel.

Not biodiesel, conventional diesel fuel: The plant will have a capacity of more than 10,000 gallons per year and will, using synthetic biology, reengineer microbes so that yeast can ferment sugar to produce hydrocarbons instead of ethanol.

Now, on the site of an old cabbage farm 9 miles from Medina, New York Energy is building an 87 million dollar ethanol plant to turn 20 million bushels of corn into 50 million gallons of fuel.

Aimed at reducing U.S. reliance on foreign oil, the Renewable Fuels Standard, or RFS, would require 13.2 billion gallons of ethanol to be made from corn this year.

The Renewable Fuels Standard set a target for the country to produce 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol next year.