They would as well provide tax credits for high-ethanol fuel pumps, refineries and other biofuels production.
But more importantly, that does NOT mean that ethanol fuel is not worth using.
In pursuit of energy independence, the United States is diverting about a quarter of the national corn crop to produce ethanol fuel.
Switchgrass contains cellulose, the starting material that, with enough heat and the right enzymes and chemicals, can be made into ethanol fuel.
Freeman was a director and Nelson promoted Earth's "Bio-Willie" ethanol fuel mix.
Gevo, of Englewood, Colorado, which filed for flotation on NASDAQ in August, is planning to make another type of post-ethanol fuel: butanol.
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While automobile engines generally fare better on mid-level ethanol fuel blends than small engines, they are by no means immune to those problems.
Using ethanol fuel, it is possible to make 2 to 2.5 L 4 cylinder engines that have the same or more power than the gasoline V8s currently used in even the largest trucks or SUVs.
Next the company converted the microbe to produce means to create ethanol fuel from plant cellulose, and following scale-up and cost problems, abandoned that dream to focus upon higher cost chemicals used in cosmetics.
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The USDA again raised its estimate of how much of that crop will be consumed by the ethanol fuel industry, which enjoys extensive government incentives, to 4.9 billion bushels, up 100 million bushels from its December estimate.
Its first action was to challenge oil companies to double the number of renewable fuel pumps at their stations within the year and pledge to offer E85 ethanol fuel at half of all gas stations within the decade.
"And it jumped a whole lot more in years when there was a lot of ethanol in the fuel than it did in years when there was no ethanol in the fuel, " he said.
Industry heavyweights like Cosan (CZZ) are also researching ways to make fuel ethanol friendly for jet fuel, and turn sugarcane bagasse, the leafy waste of the cane stalks after they are crushed into sugar molasses, into second generation ethanol, as well.
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Grassley, R-Iowa, a longtime backer of ethanol and fuel from animal waste.
Pure Power processes the woody biomass to produce ethanol for fuel, xylitol for food sweetening and lignin for the production of biopolymers.
According to William Cline of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC, at least 4% of the world's grain is used to make ethanol for fuel.
Mr. GEOFF SUNDSTROM (Spokesman, Triple-A): What's occurring at the retail level and at the fuel distribution terminal is a complete draining of their gasoline inventory, the cleaning of all the equipment and storage, and then a refilling of that storage with the new Ethanol blend fuel.
Finally, adding ethanol actually raises the price of blended fuel because ethanol is more expensive to transport and handle than gasoline.
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Nearly four million miles have been driven on Sunoco Green E15, validating the fuel qualities and environmental impact of ethanol as a viable fuel to the millions of NASCAR fans across the country.
On the fuel side, we have ethanol subsidies and the Renewable Fuel Standard, which is an implicit subsidy program.
Prior to WW1, most fuel ethanol came from wood logging and milling waste using the Scholler process.
Watkins says the rest of his fortune lies in ethanol, a fuel additive usually made from corn.
In 2010, oil companies were under legal mandate to blend 12 billion gallons of ethanol into the fuel supply.
This type of ethanol refers to fuel made from waste, wood, plants and other products, as opposed to the now widely produced corn ethanol.
Instead of mandating 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol in the fuel supply by 2010, the new mandate was for 12 billion gallons in 2010 and 15 billion gallons by 2015.
Numerous U.S. refineries have closed or are for sale right now, a reaction to lower gasoline demand from American drivers and the rampant additions of ethanol to the fuel supply.
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Two well-known cynics, David Pimentel of Cornell and Tad Patzek of UC, Berkeley, calculate that producing a gallon of corn ethanol consumes 29% more fossil fuel energy than the ethanol displaces.
The boom in ethanol has been driven by three main components--a blenders' credit that creates an incentive for producers who add ethanol to their fuel, an import tariff that keeps out foreign competitors, and a renewable fuels standard that sets the level of production.
Starting in 2002, receipts from user fees began to drop significantly, thanks largely to the impact of a slower economy and increased sales of gasahol, an Ethanol-based fuel that isn't taxed for the Highway Trust Fund and is heavily subsidized--thanks to the farm lobby and the efforts of Archer Daniels Midland (nyse: ADM - news - people ).
At present, ethanol is used mainly as a fuel additive, with the 85% ethanol-gasoline blend known as E85 sold only sparsely across the country.
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