Sentences with phrase «mandated ethanol use»

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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.

But one industry group — ethanol producers — is noting Pruitt's past differences with Trump on another hot - button EPA issue: the law that mandates the use of the crop - based gasoline additive.

«It takes 77 million years to make fossil fuels and 45 minutes to use as a coffee cup,» says Cereplast's Scheer, noting that his industry can use the residue of government - mandated production of biofuels, such as ethanol from corn.

For starters, our country's system for mandating and subsidizing the production of ethanol has meant that farmers who could be using their land to grow today's food feel economically compelled to grow tomorrow's fuel instead.

The U.S. is about to hit the «blending wall,» the saturation point for ethanol use, because it does not have the infrastructure to meet the federal mandate for renewable - fuels use with ethanol.

Cruz creditably withstood the perennial temptation — among Republicans and Democrats alike — to bow down to Big Corn and the federal mandate for ethanol that has been such a boon to Iowa corn farmers and bane if you care about food prices, greenhouse gas emissions, herbicide use or the loss of wild vegetation in the Midwest that is an important food source for monarchs and habitat for other wildlife.

I believe the mandate from the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 is to use 35 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022.

Some green activists supported mandates for biofuel, hoping they would pave the way for next - generation ethanol, which would use non-food plants.

The problem with forcing «all» vehicles to use x % ethanol and «mandating» cellulose ethanol before a single plant was built.

Canada currently maintains a 5 % domestic ethanol mandate on use while the U.S. is working towards a target of 136 billion liters of biofuels blended into transportation fuels by 2022.

Congress's ethanol mandate, which requires oil companies to use 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2020, can not be achieved, experts say, without major technological advances that are still years away.

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.

The biofuels / ethanol debate has moved over to National Journal's Energy Experts Blog, with this week's posts addressing whether the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) that mandates biofuel use should be left alone, amended or repealed.

Pure gasoline is no longer sold at pumps in Brazil, since it has had an ethanol - use mandate since 1977.

Reform legislation in the U.S. by environmental - leaning Democrats — New Mexico's Tom Udall and Vermont's Peter Welch — is now gathering support in both houses of Congress, aided by an environmental lobby determined to end subsidies to ethanol as well as its mandated use.

The politics of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and its mandates for ever - increasing ethanol use are on display this weekend in Iowa, a key presidential primary state.

Ironically, using CAFE to decrease consumption while increasing the ethanol mandate will also have a significant impact on how much bang consumers get for their buck at the pump in terms of gas mileage.

Eventually, enough refineries will go out of business, and use up enough reserves, to allow the price of ethanol to climb (because its use is mandated, the price is not locked to global oil prices).

NERA set up its study that way for good reasons: Despite abundant evidence that RFS mandates for ever - increasing ethanol use in the nation's fuel supply are detached from reality, and although it's pretty clear EPA has mismanaged the RFS to the detriment of those obligated to meet its mandates — the ethanol industry insists that the program continue as statutorily set out in 2007.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering scaling back legal requirements on the use of ethanol next year amid complaints from refiners that statutory mandates would exceed their ability to blend it into fuels without putting engines at risk.

Agriculture Department officials note that the amount of fertilizer used for all crops has remained steady for a decade, suggesting that the ethanol mandate hasn't caused a fertilizer boom nationally.

So, EPA is aiming at restricting ozone from industrialization, while our government policy simultaneously (and perhaps even unintentionally) increases overall ozone levels through a mandate for ethanol use.

API Downstream Group Director Bob Greco told reporters EPA is right to use its waiver authority to set the requirements below the original congressional mandate, calling it an acknowledgment of the «market limitations of the ethanol blend wall» — the amount of ethanol that can be safely blended into the fuel supply as E10 gasoline that's standard across the country.

Washington reasoned that with growing gasoline consumption, mandating sharply rising ethanol content in gasoline was achievable with most vehicles using E10 gasoline.

The 10 % ethanol mandate used up over 1/4 of the USA corn crop and did virtually NOTHING to reduce CO2 emissions.

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.

Ben Affleck in a corn suit, Matt Damon dressed like a gas pump, Jennifer Garner employing a British accent and Tobin Bell and his «womb juice» all make an appearance, and, while we can't fault Phin's methods — employing celebs — or for the over-reaching message — that we need Congress to mandate cars that get better gas mileage — using corn - based ethanol as the flex - fuel crutch is not going to cut it.

The EPA announced yesterday that it would open a 30 day commenting period as it weighs requests from multiple state governors to use provisions in the Clean Air Act to temporarily suspend the corn ethanol mandate under the Renewable Fuel Standard:

Unfortunately, this doesn't stop RFA from cherry - picking data to create «facts» that support ever - increasing use of ethanol despite real data that strongly argues the ethanol mandates under the Renewable Fuel Standard could negatively impact consumers and the broader economy.

The Congressional mandate for ethanol is clearly affecting land use in the U.S.) >> Please don't compare apples and oranges — or in this case cellulose and corn.