Finally, the red and bluelines are the amount of ethanol that would be missing from the market
if ethanol blending was capped at 400,000 bbl / d.
Not exact matches
As
if all that wasn't bad enough,
ethanol blends hurt your car's fuel economy.
• Since 2007, the RFS, which requires fuel retailers to
blend corn
ethanol into the gasoline they sell, has saddled American motorists with more than $ 10 billion per year in extra fuel costs above what they would have paid
if they had purchased gasoline alone.
High
ethanol blended fuels, like E85, are not viable solutions for reaching renewable fuel consumption targets of the RFS, even
if cellulosic standards are waived.
If the
ethanol mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) required more, then you're running into the
ethanol «
blend wall» — that is, to satisfy the RFS, refiners would have to
blend fuel with higher
ethanol content than millions of vehicles are designed to use.
If CAFE drops gasoline demand from 140 billion gallons per year to 100 billion gallons, and the RFS requires 36 billion gallons of
ethanol by 2022, the current
blend of E10 (gasoline with 10 percent
ethanol) will need to be increased to E40 nationwide.
If US takes a formal decision to suspend
ethanol production or
blending criteria called Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) that is uneconomical anyway, around 110 million tonnes — 30 % of US corn production — can be spared.
· Substantially increased use of biofuels can only occur
if they can be used in forms other than the low - percentage
blends of
ethanol and biodiesel that account for nearly all of their current use.