Sentences with phrase «rise as ethanol»

As an example, if oil is high, $ KORN will rise as ethanol becomes more desired as an alternative source of fuel.

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Puzder named ethanol regulation, which has resulted in higher beef costs, a rising minimum wage and higher labor costs due to Obamacare as three obstacles that make doing business in the U.S. more difficult than in the past.

Even with the tariff, U.S. ethanol exports hit a record high in February, thanks largely to rising Brazilian demand as higher gasoline prices and low international sugar prices made ethanol more competitive at the pump.

Note the across the board rise in commodity prices (including non-food commodities) which are not explained by corn - to - ethanol as the culprit.

We had argued that corn ethanol would drive biodiversity loss, cause food prices to rise and contribute to chronic hunger, while failing to reduce emissions, as it has in fact done.

As of mid-2007, growth in investment in ethanol and biodiesel was losing momentum as feedstock prices rose for both ethanol distilleries and biodiesel refineries and as soaring grain prices sounded alarm bells for food consumers everywherAs of mid-2007, growth in investment in ethanol and biodiesel was losing momentum as feedstock prices rose for both ethanol distilleries and biodiesel refineries and as soaring grain prices sounded alarm bells for food consumers everywheras feedstock prices rose for both ethanol distilleries and biodiesel refineries and as soaring grain prices sounded alarm bells for food consumers everywheras soaring grain prices sounded alarm bells for food consumers everywhere.

The National Commission on Energy Policy reported in December that, if fleet mileage in the U.S. rises to 40 mpg — somewhat below the current European Union fleet average for new vehicles of 42 mpg and well below the current Japanese average of 47 mpg - then as switchgrass yields improve modestly to around 10 tons / acre it would take only 30 million acres of land to produce sufficient cellulosic ethanol to fuel half the U.S. passenger fleet.

Let's not forget ethanol is made from food crops such as corn and right now there's a drought in much of the Midwest, which is causing corn and other crop prices to rise.

This is not to mention the substantial rise in food costs that will continue as long as governments continue their misguided efforts to promote and subsidize food - based ethanol as a global warming solution.

«The biofuels researcher Timothy Searchinger has calculated that once the massive release of greenhouse gases cause by converting grassland and rainforest into cropland is taken into account, introduction of biofuels produces increases in greenhouse emissions, the size of the rise being as much as a doubling for corn ethanol production,» Montford tells us.

When demand for corn ethanol rose, so did corn prices, as did the acres diverted to corn production.

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.

The food group is suing because, as a result of EPA's E15 waiver, ethanol production will increase and demand for corn (a necessary raw material for ethanol) will rise significantly.

As corn prices have risen, refineries have scaled back production, idled dozens of plants and sold ethanol inventories.

Use of pure ethanol will rise sharply as carmakers in Brazil such as General Motors and Volkswagen make more flexible - fuel cars.

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.

He also reserved criticism for the recently enacted energy law, which calls for a fivefold increase in biofuel production by 2022, stating that its promotion of corn ethanol would lead people to «starve to death in parts of the world» as a result of rising food prices.

I can see the headline now, «Tequila prices rise as agave used for ethanol.