The United States provides a range of
incentives for ethanol production including exclusion from excise taxes, mandating clean air performance requirements that created markets for ethanol, and tax incentives and accelerated depreciation schedules for electricity generating equipment that burn biomass (USDOE, 2005).
Not exact matches
This should provide an
incentive for shifting to a new generation of fuels like cellulosic
ethanol that will reduce concerns about food prices and the environment.
Rewards
for Performance, Not Over-Hyped Promises I recently wrote a post detailing some steps that I believe should be taken to improve the nature of how we provide
incentives for biofuels: How to Fix the Broken Cellulosic
Ethanol Incentive System.
The illustrious green movement who killed nuclear power in 1970s and brought about global warming by scrubbing shade - producing particulates from smokestacks and tailpipes are now bent on using a ginned up catastrophic climate change scenario to keep the price of oil elevated in order to keep the profit
incentive alive
for stupid expensive alternatives like windmills and
ethanol from corn.
The Arizona senator is also proposing stiffer fines
for automakers who skirt existing fuel - efficiency standards, as well as
incentives to increase use of domestic and foreign alcohol - based fuels such as
ethanol.
If you look at this part of the tax code, many of the energy - related tax
incentives will expire at the end of 2011, including the section 1603 program; the credit
for energy - efficient residential retrofits; the credit
for construction of new energy - efficient homes; the credit
for energy efficient appliances; and the
incentives for alcohol fuels (mostly
ethanol), biodiesel, and renewable diesel.
The U.S. and other countries passed legislation that provides
incentives for the increased production of biofuels (e.g.
ethanol, etc.).
Scientists have shown that the
incentives for corn
ethanol have resulted in conversion of 24 million acres of grassland, wetland, and shrubland to corn from 2008 to 2011 alone.