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RE: Hunger, farmer, religious and development organizations oppose extension of ethanol tax credits.

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That means the total tax on gasoline and ethanol is 27.9 cents per gallon, slightly below the national average gas tax of 29.9 cents per gallon.

A tax credit buoyed ethanol to about 4 percent of Minnesota's gasoline supply.

The Northern Territories of Australia levied a tax on alcohol with more than three per cent ethanol, which led to greater availability of lower - strength beer.

This wrong - headed policy, pushed by an aggressive farm lobby, gives a 51 - cent tax credit for each gallon of ethanol blended into gasoline.

Ed Kjaer, director of electric transportation at Southern California Edison, argues that plug - ins represent a natural evolution of hybrid technology, which today essentially burns gas to generate electricity... George W. Bush, the former Texan oilman, has begun talking up corn ethanol and clean diesel and has endorsed a $ 4,000 tax credit for purchases of hybrid cars.

The reason a listening tour is the next step, and not a pre-packaged batch of legislation or other steps, is to build on the common ground across a wide range of Americans on energy thrift, innovation and fair play (meaning policies that distort the playing field, with mandated corn ethanol production and tax breaks for fossil fuel companies prime examples).

If there were some rational means of computing these costs and applying them through taxes or subsidies, that would be sound policy, but I hope we've all noticed how that really works out in practice (see corn ethanol).

-- 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)-Rtax 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)-RTax 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)-RTax on heavy truck tires (Sec. 4071 (d)-RRB--- Annual use tax on heavy highway vehicles (Sec. 4481 (f)-Rtax on heavy highway vehicles (Sec. 4481 (f)-RRB-

Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf, offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....

Corn Plus took a chance on the ethanol fuel market 18 years ago and apparently had a pretty decent run of it until recently, when a number of circumstances (not just tax credits) changed.

It is important to note that more advanced biofuels still receive tax support: cellulosic ethanol receives $ 1.01 per gallon in tax credits, but that is set to expire at the end of this year.

Ed Kjaer, director of electric transportation at Southern California Edison, argues that plug - ins represent a natural evolution of hybrid technology, which today essentially burns gas to generate electricity... George W. Bush, the former Texan oilman, has begun talking up corn ethanol and clean diesel and has endorsed a $ 4,000 tax credit for purchases of hybrid cars.

The bill extends the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) through 2011 at the current rate of $ 0.45 / gallon US.

The bill also extends through 2011 the $ 0.10 / gallon producer tax credit for small ethanol producers producing no more 60 million gallon of ethanol a year.

Western Biomass Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Blue Sugars Corporation (previously KL Energy) reported the major milestone of claiming the first cellulosic ethanol tax credits under the RFS2 for a 20,069 gallon batch of cellulosic ethanol produced from bagasse (sugar cane waste) in April 2012.

On behalf of his home state, Grassley wants the energy bill to secure an excise - tax exemption for ethanol, part of a complex plan estimated to cost the federal government about $ 2 billion a year.

Ethanol subsidies once included a high tariff and generous tax credits, both of which expired at the end of 2011.

A minimal first step would be to ensure that all fossil fuel inputs to biofuels are carbon - taxed, including natural gas used as feedstock for ammonia - based fertilizers of corn grown for ethanol.

We start with a minimal approach that would tax all fossil fuel inputs of bioenergy including those used to manufacture fertilizer for corn grown for ethanol.

Indeed, the corn - to - ethanol production cycle is so carbon - intensive that a carbon tax applied to its fuel inputs (including natural gas) would internalize much of ethanol's climate cost, obviating somewhat the need for a tax on the end - product.

This is important context for the thorny question of whether, and how, carbon emissions from burning bioenergy — renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources (a category that includes both biofuels like ethanol and biomass like wood used to generate electricity)-- should be included in prospective carbon taxes.

Other bioenergy fuels such as wood chips, cellulosic ethanol, methanol, sugar cane and biodiesel have their own distinct lifecycle fuel inputs and carbon emissions, raising the thorny issue of assessing and taxing their lifecycle carbon emissions.

Probably because ethanol mandates and electric car subsidies are lucrative sources of federal grants, loans, subsidies and tax credits for «alternative fuels» and electric cars.

At the federal level this means the tax credits that have been in place for more than 20 years, encouraging the growth of wind, solar, ethanol, and other renewable energy sources.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand that there are natural cycles and that they milk them to scare us so they can tax and control us and get us to pay subsidies and allow tax credits so they, and their contributors can get rich off of windmills, solar panels, ethanol and whatever schemes they have to save the world from a made up problem that does not exist.

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).

This week's senate vote to end subsidies for ethanol has left campaigners worried the renewables sector is next, that tax credits and deductions will be scrapped in favour of the Republican austerity measure to reduce the deficit.

It's now all but certain that the ethanol tax credit will expire at the end of the year, and the ethanol producers continue to claim credit for «giving it up» despite that it was obviously lost due to larger political considerations, and the fact that they lobbied initially for its extension and then eventually for a substitute which would have still funneled money into their industry.

-- tax carbon (simply a top - down government power grab, which achieves nothing regarding climate but hurts the most vulnerable plus the economy in general); — subsidize corn ethanol (not competitive, drives up the price of an essential food crop); — subsidize «green energy» development or manufacturing projects (too many Solyndras, too many political cronies getting taxpayer money to support basically uncompetitive projects).

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 list is long and worth many billions (sorry for caps); — GREENHOUSE GAS ABATEMENT PROGM (Carbon capture)-- NON-RECOVERY OF PUBLIC AGENCY COSTS — PETROLEUM EXPLORATION TAX CONCESSIONS — RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE — DIRECT SUBSIDIES TO FOSSIL FUEL PROJECTS — DIESEL FUEL REBATE SCHEME — EXEMPTION FROM EXCISE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUELS Ethanol production which is an energy sink)-- CONCESSIONAL RATE OF EXCISE FOR FUEL OIL, — HEATING OIL AND KEROSENE — CONCESSIONAL RATE OF EXCISE FOR AVIATION FUEL — EXCISE FREE STATUS FOR CONDENSATE — SUBSIDISED SUPPLY OF COAL - FIRED ELECTRICITY TO — ALUMINIUM SMELTERS — STATE ENERGY SUPPLY CONCESSIONS — ELECTRICITY PRICING STRUCTURES — SUBSIDIES FOR CENTRALISED GENERATION

The Federal Government provides a 51Â cents tax exemption to gasoline refiners for every gallon of ethanol used, to keep the product competitive.

George W. Bush, the former Texan oilman, has begun talking up corn ethanol and clean diesel and has endorsed a $ 4,000 tax credit for purchases of hybrid cars.

The wasteful tax effect arises because a certain number of workers are used to produce the ethanol, rather than goods and services consumers in the market prefer.

New EPA Chief Scott Pruitt and the rest of the Trump economic team need to recognize that the RSF point of obligation and the ethanol mandate tax actually represent a net loss to the economy, subtracting from growth.

The dispute is over conservative support for a bill that would repeal the ethanol tax credit, which has the effect of raising an industry specific tax.

In a letter to Mr. Coburn, a deputy of Mr. Norquist writes: «Repealing the ethanol credit is the right thing to do, but other taxes must be reduced in the same legislation by at least this much to prevent a net tax increase.»

There is an ongoing ethanol spat between Senator Coburn (R - OK) and Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform.

On the other hand, 75 percent expressed concern about government requirements that would increase the amount of ethanol in gasoline, while 72 percent oppose higher taxes that could decrease investment in energy production and reduce energy development.

Of course we should zero out tax breaks, lease loopholes and other giveaways to the fossil fuel industry, along with the bloated and unsupportable ethanol mandate.

Support for the ethanol industry, which blossomed because of a system of tax breaks followed by the fuel mandate, has long been bipartisan, and the current debate is split more along regional than partisan lines.

But instead of doing the obvious — tax the damn thing — we go through spasms of destructive alternatives, such as efficiency standards, ethanol mandates and now a crazy carbon cap - and - trade system the Senate is debating this week.

Instead of subsidizing the production of corn ethanol, the U.S. government should subsidize that of sugar ethanol - which is taxed under the law - he argued.

The conversation keeps getting dragged away because the ethanol * program * has had lots of unintended effects (corn prices, food prices, etc.) You claim that raising fuel efficiency will do more than ethanol in terms of saving the environment, but take another step back and consider the easiest way to save the environment — taxing carbon emissions.

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100 % of the revenues from the $ 0.54 tax are distributed to US ethanol producers, pro-rated to their production.