Sentences with phrase «supports ethanol from corn»
Obama of course has also promised to fund clean coal research and also supports ethanol from corn, which McCain, to his credit, does not.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
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.
The U.S. Department of Energy has provided more than $ 1 billion in federal funds to support research to develop cellulosic biofuels, including ethanol made from corn stover.
When really pressed on why the USDA and the Obama administration continue to support corn based ethanol, they point to using it as helping support the fledgling cellulosic ethanol industry, which seems to always be just 5 years away from commercial viability.
In years where we have a bumper crop of corn, and produce more than we need for feed, the market to distilleries will provide built in price supports; the DDGS from the other ethanol feedstocks will provide some cushion to food production in years when the corn crop is bad.
I would not advocate pulling the support out from under the corn ethanol industry, but I would be looking for an exit strategy.
That said, let's move on from corn ethanol and put any and all gov» t support into cellulosic and other related technologies.