Sentences with phrase «supply into ethanol»

Not exact matches

Congress in 2007 required that refiners blend 36 billion gallons of ethanol into fuel supply by 2022.

The rest can still be fed into the corn supply chain to make ethanol or grits or any of the other products corn is already used for.

You then take that ethanol and burn it into an internal combustion engine that is maybe 20 - 30 % efficient, and you end up with a tremendous amount of wasted energy... And you've used up farmland that could instead have grown food for human consumption, increasing food prices by reducing supply.

Market - based principles should guide policymakers away from top - down, government - mandated ventures such as the flawed Renewable Fuel Standard — which could force higher ethanol blend fuels into the national supply, potentially damaging vehicle engines and saddling consumers with repair costs.

Last week the EPA dismissed a petition by the American Petroleum Institute seeking relief from the cellulosic ethanol mandate, which requires that oil refiners blend 8.65 million gallons of ethanol into the fuel supply by the end of 2012:

NASCAR racing team owner Richard Childress has an op - ed in the Charlotte Observer this week in which he renders a full - throttle endorsement of E15 gasoline and the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the federal program that requires more and more ethanol be blended into the nation's fuel supply.

The 2005 energy bill and a 2007 revamp mandated increasing volumes of cellulosic ethanol be blended into the nation's gasoline and diesel supplies each year through 2022.

They want Washington to force refiners like ExxonMobil to blend 15 percent ethanol — or E15 — into the motor - fuel supply.

Because, as I wrote in 2012, under the current law, refiners (and, indirectly, consumers) have to pay a fee for failing to blend cellulosic ethanol into existing fuel supplies.

Almost all of these projects differ from the ethanol being blended into the US gasoline supply in that they are made from inedible feedstocks, which sidesteps one of the critiques often leveled at biofuels: that they compete in with crops raised for people or livestock, driving up food prices.

Rather, the agency set ethanol requirements higher and higher with no apparent regard for falling U.S. gasoline consumption, allowing the RFS to drive the country headlong toward the «ethanol blend wall» — and potential harms from forcing more ethanol into the fuel supply than it can safely absorb.

Unfortunately, the bill is a distraction from fundamental problems with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which is forcing more and more ethanol into the nation's fuel supply.

The history of the RFS is that EPA's enthusiasm for the program has seen the agency mandate ever - increasing volumes of ethanol in the fuel supply, potentially putting consumers at risk by pushing fuels into the marketplace that could damage the engines of vehicles, motorcycles, boats and small power equipment.

Trees turned into ethanol are less productive than if the biomass is used to supply power to PHEVs,

The Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) program requires fuel suppliers to incorporate a minimum quantity of renewable, biomass - based ethanol or biodiesel into gasoline supplies.

That's what we draw from EPA's requirements for levels of corn ethanol and other renewable fuels that must be blended into the U.S. fuel supply.

Under the current law, refiners (and, indirectly, consumers) have to pay a fee for failing to blend cellulosic ethanol into existing fuel supplies.

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.

Turn the high fructose corn syrup into ethanol instead of use it to pollute the food supply with unnecessary calories.