The U.S. Department of Energy says flex-fuel vehicles can use 217% ethanol fuel or 22018% ethanol fuel, with the more ethanol-rich blends being more popular in farm states near where ethanol is produced.
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Go deeper: Understanding America's ethanol policy; The ethanol empire strikes back
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There is no requirement whatsoever to use ethanol, much less corn ethanol.
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The government launched a draft of the new bio-ethanol policy that will promote production of bio-ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass, as against the conventional approach of using molasses to produce ethanol for India's Ethanol Blending Programme (EBP).
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"Higher prices for corn ethanol in the international market will open room for cane ethanol to gain sales," said Arnaldo Correa, a sugar and ethanol analyst from Archer Consulting, adding that such a move would also increase ethanol prices in Brazil.
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If, however, more ethanol could be blended into today's E85033 (raising the concentration of ethanol from 10% to 25% - 30%), a new gasoline-ethanol blend fuel could be produced that would: Neither ethanol nor gasoline is a perfect transportation fuel.
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Ethanol, the salaries ethanol plants are not 20043 bucks an hour, $45 an hour.
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"When you add the price premium for advanced ethanol (RIN), Brazilian ethanol arrives in California currently around 7% cheaper than U.S. ethanol, so it is competitive," he said.
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Reduction in GST on ethanol will help promote use of ethanol by oil marketing companies.
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Some of the ethanol was produced by Green Plains Inc, one of America's top ethanol producers.
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"The Dems will end ethanol, you know that, they're not going to approve ethanol," he said.
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E85 gasoline is a gasoline-ethanol blend with high levels of ethanol used for flex-fuel vehicles.
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Ethanol is a major market for Iowa corn, and the state's voters have generally supported ethanol mandates.
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Pacific ethanol owns 9 ethanol plants with a combined production capacity of 605 million gallons a year.
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But at ethanol concentrations of 45 percent, ethanol clustered at the surface of the drink, along with guaiacol.
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He's an ethanol stalwart who represents the northwest corner of Iowa — ethanol central — but he's campaigning for Cruz.
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Cellulosic ethanol in Brazil is mostly made from the cane waste from the production of sugar and ethanol.
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The plan called for the "promotion and application of fuel ethanol" as well as "vigorous development of fibre ethanol", such as ethanol made from cellulosic fibre, which uses the non-edible parts of plants.
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Or the prohibitions against importing Brazilian-made ethanol at a fraction of what Iowa ethanol costs the American consumer?
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The agency should eliminate antiquated rules that discourage the sale of other ethanol blends, including 30 percent ethanol blends.
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A group opposed to the federal ethanol mandate is taking its message to Iowa, the nation's leading ethanol producer.
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But the impact of increased ethanol use on net carbon dioxide emissions depends on how the ethanol is made.
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FARMERS KNOCK TRUMP OVER ETHANOL PLAN: Iowa farmers and ethanol producers are livid over the latest iteration of the Trump administration's ethanol proposal, saying the president has reneged on a deal struck just 6900 days before.
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The rest was consumed by ethanol production as sales of hydrous ethanol, the type that competes with gasoline at pumps.
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The higher ethanol blend, known as E15, contains 15 percent ethanol versus the 10 percent found in most U.S. gasoline.
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Cruz opposes the federal ethanol mandate, which requires refiners to mix a certain amount of ethanol into their gasoline supply.
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Ethanol could be another promising U.S. export to China, which wants to increase the blend rate of ethanol into gasoline.
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ETHANOL U.S. ethanol imports could feature in upcoming purchases, said Friedrichs, helping Trump win support from ethanol producers, one of his voter bases which has been hit by waning Chinese demand and U.S. initiatives affecting the industry.
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Although corn ethanol comprises 10 percent of gasoline sales nationally, agricultural interests are frustrated by the program's failure to stimulate sales of ethanol blends with an ethanol content exceeding 10 percent, without which their industry cannot grow.
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Brazil's political history with ethanol looks something like America's, as sugarcane-growing states fed ethanol into regional fuel supplies in the 1930s and 1950s and Depression-era President Getúlio Vargas considered expanding ethanol into a national fuel.
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After running computer simulations of various water and ethanol mixtures, the researchers found that ethanol content greatly affected how guaiacol behaved.
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There are over 600 stores setting up infrastructure for higher ethanol fuel blends, said Sean Miller, senior ethanol trader with ADM.
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Iowa is the nation's largest producer of ethanol, with the industry supporting 44 ethanol plants and more than 40,000 related jobs.
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Washington is also pushing for China to remove tariffs on ethanol and distiller dried grains, a by-product of ethanol production.
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The refining and ethanol industries have both previously stated that America's fuels supply will contain 10 percent ethanol without a mandate.
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Instead of subsidizing ethanol, the new law mandated that 4 billion gallons of ethanol be mixed into gasoline beginning in 21625.
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"Ethanol was a surprise — it's extremely difficult to go straight from carbon dioxide to ethanol with a single catalyst," he added.
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Unlike some other countries, where ethanol is merely mixed into the gasoline supply, most Brazilian cars can run entirely on ethanol.
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Farmers generally want more ethanol in the fuel supply, while those in the oil industry often bristle at higher ethanol mandates.
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At an Iowa rally where he rolled out a plan to boost ethanol use by lifting a key limit on ethanol content in gasoline, Trump warned attendees that, in contrast to his own policies, Democrats would be anti-ethanol.
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They presented options to boost ethanol demand, which farmers say has slumped since the EPA exempted dozens of refineries from ethanol requirements.
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Higher corn prices could increase the use of cane to make ethanol and encourage U.S. imports of Brazilian sugarcane ethanol, dealers said.
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Interestingly the petroleum industry has invested heavily in ethanol with Valero, Koch and Marathon, among others, owning and operating large ethanol plants.
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Environmental Protection Agency standards currently limit ethanol blends to 10 percent ethanol during the summer months due to concerns about air pollution.
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Trump tied ethanol to his campaign slogan "Make America Great Again," saying ethanol reduces dependence on imported oil, which helps energy independence.
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DEBT WORRIES, ETHANOL STOCKS U.S. corn prices also eased Thursday, weakened by high ethanol stocks, which could curb demand from biofuel producers.
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And so the ethanol industry works to ensure that every potential presidential candidate is a strong supporter of ethanol and the RFS.
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Ethanol producers want the oil industry as a whole to blend in any gallons of ethanol small refineries are exempted from using.
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"(The) ethanol that we make here is exactly the same as ethanol that is distilled from corn, and is exactly the same as ethanol that you drink in vodka or beer or whatever, it's the same exact molecule," he said.
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According to UDOP, a Brazilian association of sugar and ethanol producers, the suggestion to discuss a partnership on ethanol came from the Indian government, which has a target to gradually increase blending of ethanol to gasoline to up to 20%.
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An engineer working for COFCO on a large, 1.2 billion liter/year corn ethanol plant in Zhaodong, China, said the commodities trader, which operates four cane-based sugar and ethanol facilities in Brazil, is looking at corn ethanol in Mato Grosso.
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The rest of the ethanol is mandated to come from nonfood crops like switch grass, to prevent ethanol from driving up food costs.
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Malaysia has no track record of significant domestic ethanol production, so it is unclear where the ethanol blended with the U.S. product originates.
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Beijing will lay out plans for grain-based ethanol production and accelerate the construction of cassava-based ethanol plants, the government posting said.
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Shares of ethanol producers Green Plains Inc and Pacific Ethanol Inc have slumped by more than 40% since April, Refinitiv Eikon data showed.
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Brazilian ethanol producers are pressing the government to implement as soon as possible a program to boost ethanol and biodiesel demand, called RenovaBio.
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But some ethanol interests say such a reform would pull the rug out from under the mandate, causing chaos within the ethanol industry.
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The process is "a lot like making beer, except that instead of converting sugar to ethanol we convert pollution to ethanol," Holmgren says.
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It's worth repeating that the market for ethanol has never operated freely since ethanol was first blended with refined fuel in the 1970s.
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The potential ill effects of ethanol in gasoline are worrisome for owners of cars whose makers specify limits on acceptable levels of ethanol.
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The ethanol industry claims the exemptions have been overused, threatening demand for corn-based ethanol at a time when farmers are already struggling.
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Over the past three years, ethanol policy has shifted quickly in the world's two largest ethanol producing countries, the United States and Brazil.
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As a result, car companies have refused to honor engine warranties using gasoline with ethanol mixes above 10 percent, angering the ethanol industry.
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Kammen started out on the pro-ethanol side: His lab published a paper in 2006 suggesting corn ethanol was better than fossil fuels.
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Martinho Ono, a director at Sao Paulo-based ethanol brokerage SCA Etanol do Brasil, said some sugar and ethanol makers in Brazil are converting anhydrous ethanol - the type primarily produced in the United States - into the hydrous variety more common in Brazil.
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Trump also said he supported expanding sales of high-ethanol gasoline year-round – a tweak long sought by ethanol producers, according to the source.
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"Next year, considering the outlook for better returns for ethanol, mills are likely to explore their production flexibility to produce more ethanol," Pogetti said.
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"Many mills continue to focus on ethanol, which generates quick cash," said Jo Paulo Bothell, a sugar and ethanol analyst at broker INTO Capstone.
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Recognizing the benefits of ethanol, the EPA granted a waiver for blends with 10 percent ethanol that register slightly above the agency's volatility standard.
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In other words, the mandate will force more ethanol into the fuel supply than can be accommodated through standard E2202 (2628 percent ethanol) gasoline.
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He added that Beijing was also willing to buy imported ethanol to support a push to use a 10 percent ethanol blend in fuels.
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Test results came back showing ethanol in the patient's urine, but they didn't find any ethyl glucuronide or ethyl sulfate -- the metabolites of ethanol.
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GAS STATIONS UNITE ON ETHANOL: A group of gasoline station companies are teaming up to fight a potential change to the federal ethanol mandate.
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The ethanol industry claims the exemptions have been over-used, threatening demand for corn-based ethanol at a time when farmers are already struggling.
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Because corn ethanol is cheap and easy to produce and was already in use as a gasoline additive before the mandate was imposed, and because existing corn ethanol plants are exempted from greenhouse gas emissions requirements, production has vastly exceeded that of cellulosic ethanol.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Copersucar SA, the world's largest sugar and ethanol merchant, expects ethanol demand in the United States could increase by 50% when a new U.S. policy allowing for larger sales of gasoline blended with 15% ethanol, known as E15, is fully implemented.
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The senators came into the meeting concerned that the Trump administration's policies too heavily favored the ethanol industry, which pushes to require more ethanol in gasoline, increasing costs for refiners who have to either buy the ethanol or buy renewable identification number credits to comply.
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Large-scale use of ethanol takes place only in those two countries, basically, despite efforts in the past to make ethanol an internationally traded commodity.
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Coelho said Brazil needs to protect its ethanol industry from U.S. corn ethanol with measures other than import tariffs, which could trigger a U.S. response.
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The Trump administration deal would have also removed restrictions on selling gasoline with high ethanol concentrations in the summer, a move supported by ethanol backers.
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Opponents of the ethanol mandate such as oil companies and the ethanol industry have repeatedly clashed over the climate change benefits of the biofuel program.
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"He said, 'you know, I campaigned on, promised ethanol, and I want you to tell the people of Iowa I'm still for ethanol,'" Grassley said.
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Senators from ethanol-producing, Midwestern states have opposed that plan, as well an EPA proposal to cut the blending requirements for ethanol next year. Sen.
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So-called flex-fuel cars that run on pure ethanol or a gasoline-ethanol blend now make up 22019 percent of Brazil's light vehicle fleet.
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Joao Paulo Botelho, sugar and ethanol analyst for broker and consultancy INTL FCStone, said mills would try to focus as much on ethanol as possible.
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And given that cellulosic ethanol for the most part doesn't exist despite favored treatment and subsidies, corn ethanol takes on an even more important role.
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Previously the higher blend of ethanol in gas was banned in summer months due to ground-ozone pollution caused by burning ethanol in warmer months.
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Groups on both sides of the issue have looked to make ethanol a major political issue in Iowa, the top ethanol state in the country.
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Following all the talk of better ethanol demand with the Trump administration's proposed changes to federal biofuel blending requirements, ethanol numbers were disappointing this morning.
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Spokespeople for the ethanol groups said the firm will focus on tax reform, but also the RFS, which sets ethanol blending requirements for gasoline supplies.
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They said the officials will present options to boost ethanol demand, which farmers say has slumped since the EPA exempted dozens of refineries from ethanol requirements.
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The floods forced Midwest ethanol production to fall by some 13 to 15 percent, traders told Reuters, leaving blenders and retail gasoline racks short on ethanol.
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The researchers conducted a series of simulations to see how water, ethanol, and a flavorful compound in whiskey called guaiacol would behave at different ethanol concentrations.
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"In comparison to local biofuels such as corn ethanol, cane ethanol from Brazil has a much lower carbon footprint," said F.O. Licht managing director Christoph Berg.
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Still, ethanol producers have blasted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under Trump for granting waivers exempting a record number of refineries from federal ethanol blending requirements.
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Even so, ethanol producers wanted to put even more ethanol in our gas tanks because that increases the demand for, and therefore the price of, corn.
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Two ethanol groups have signed contracts with high-powered lobbying firm Heather Podesta + Partners amid a growing fight over the future of the federal ethanol mandate.
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"It may not be too little, but it might be too late for some ethanol plants," said Broghammer, whose ethanol plant is the largest in Iowa.
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Corn ethanol is the cheapest octane booster available, so even if the RFS were to disappear, 10 percent of U.S. gasoline would come from corn ethanol.
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Instead, there is a congressionally-mandated market that operates as a hidden ethanol tax, since ethanol contains about one-third less energy than gasoline by volume.
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A new bill from two Democrats would overhaul the federal government's ethanol mandate in an attempt to reduce incentives for corn-based ethanol and similar biofuels.
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Instead of tamping down the ethanol controversy that has boiled for months, the EPA's announcement managed to anger both corn ethanol advocates and the refining industry.
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For years, the biofuel industry has sought to lift the summer ban on E15, with 15 percent ethanol, to boost domestic demand for corn-based ethanol.
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If growing corn for ethanol in Iowa meant that farmers had to convert more land into fields, that would completely wipe out the benefit of ethanol.
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The changes are meant to reduce the prices of credits that oil refiners buy if they can't blend ethanol into their fuels — a win for refiners — and to allow higher concentrations of ethanol to be sold year-round — a win for the ethanol and corn industries.
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The changes are meant to reduce the prices of credits that oil refiners buy if they can't blend ethanol into their fuels -- a win for refiners -- and to allow higher concentrations of ethanol to be sold year-round -- a win for the ethanol and corn industries.
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Analysts say the trend marks a significant victory for U.S. ethanol manufacturers, such as Archer Daniels Midland Co and Pacific Ethanol Inc and the entire biofuel industry.
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Ironically, that competition would come in the form of corn-based ethanol common in the United States, not sugar-based ethanol that has traditionally dominated in Brazil.
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The oil industry and ethanol producers have been stuck in a tug of war over ethanol rules for months, leaving the White House square in the middle.
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The three dry-mill ethanol plants, some of the largest in the country, represent just under half of ADM's 1.8-billion-gallon-per-year U.S. ethanol capacity.
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"I stuck with ethanol, most of the other candidates weren't there," Trump added at the time, referring to his commitment throughout the 2016 presidential campaign to ethanol.
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In the closed-door meeting this month, Trump also supported expanding sales of high-ethanol gasoline – a tweak long-sought by ethanol producers, according to the source.
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And many say that when ethanol production and carbon dioxide absorption by crops like corn are factored in, ethanol is no better for the environment than gasoline.
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OIL LOBBY SAYS ETHANOL SUPPORT IS LOW: A poll commissioned and released by the top oil lobbying group shows limited support for expanding the federal ethanol mandate.
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Farmers and ethanol producers are also upset with the administration's latest decision to allow more oil refiners to skirt biofuel laws and use less corn-based ethanol.
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But some environmental groups and ethanol opponents say that agricultural practices and other processes used to create ethanol result in increased pollution and harm to the ecosystem.
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Raízen has previously said that it sells all of its 2G ethanol at a price premium over regular, sugar cane-based ethanol, due to its environmental credentials.
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ANTI-ETHANOL FORCES ALREADY DECLARING VICTORY IN IOWA: A group opposed to the federal ethanol mandate is already claiming victory of sorts in Monday night's Iowa caucuses.
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Because ethanol emits less carbon than conventional gasoline when burned, the renewable fuels standard requires that refiners include 183 billion gallons of ethanol in their products annually.
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Ethanol producers argue that the EPA's regulation does not account for exemptions granted to refineries that have violated the spirit of the law and destroyed ethanol demand.
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Plinio Nastari, chief analyst at sugar and ethanol consultancy Datagro, sees current returns on raw sugar sales still around $1 per pound, below the equivalent on ethanol prices.
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ADM, which had been an ethanol pioneer, signaled to Wall Street in 2016 that it was hunting for options and considering sales of its U.S. dry ethanol mills.
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Sacramento, California-based Pacific Ethanol became one of the country's top ethanol producers, with capacity over 500 million gallons, after it acquired Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings last year.
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The statement has allayed concerns in the industry that the ethanol policy had stalled, and shares in China's ethanol producers rallied as the news restored confidence among investors.
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His rivals -- particularly Donald Trump -- have been hitting Cruz hard for his opposition to ethanol subsidies, and voters here have expressed concerns about Cruz's rejection of ethanol subsidies.
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That would potentially allow U.S. ethanol suppliers to take advantage of Beijing's plans to introduce E10 — a gasoline blend containing 10 percent ethanol — across the country next year.
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Pacific Ethanol, the No. 6 U.S. ethanol producer, told investors last week that it idled 10 percent of its production capacity to battle high inventories and slumping margins.
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Copersucar exports Brazilian ethanol to the United States and imports U.S. ethanol into Brazil, using Eco-Energy infrastructure, depending on prices in both markets and the exchange rate.
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Of that amount, 22019 billion gallons can be traditional corn-based ethanol, while the rest would be filled out by biodiesel, cellulosic ethanol and other nonfossil-fuel liquids.
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" But he added that he also is going to "tear down the EPA's ethanol blend wall, which means make it legal to sell mid-level blends of ethanol.
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Ethanol has also featured prominently in the climate change discussion between candidates and Iowans, as corn growers and ethanol manufacturers are a huge mainstay of the Iowa economy.
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Because cellulosic ethanol is the most promising low-GHG second generation fuel, this means supporting additional infrastructure investments to increase the amount of ethanol in the fuel supply.
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For example, Flint Hills Resources has acquired several ethanol biorefineries and worked with biotech company Edeniq to launch new technology to produce cellulosic ethanol in those same facilities.
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To meet this goal, fuel distributors were tempted to promote ethanol-rich and easy-to-use SP95-E10 instead of standard SP95 and SP98 which also contain ethanol but only up to 5 percent, or E85 - with between 65 and 85 percent of ethanol - that requires specific engines or conversion kits.
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Datagro, a leading sugar and ethanol consultancy in Brazil, sees most mills pushing their first crush back by two weeks due to high ethanol inventories and slow cane development.
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In that scenario, ethanol demand in Brazil would likely rise further, experts say, leading mills to maintain current production mix that heavily favors ethanol at the expense of sugar.
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While some ethanol plants were flooded, the primary effect of the rising waters was to shut rail lines that serve as the main arteries for corn and ethanol deliveries.
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Dems probe Trump adviser Icahn's role in ethanol policy: Senate Democrats are investigating the role that President Trump's adviser Carl Icahn is playing in setting the administration's ethanol policy.
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Thus, EPA's decision to set the conventional ethanol RVO at 14.8 bg was based on 2023 bg of conventional ethanol and 0.6 bg of conventional biodiesel and renewable diesel.
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Pruitt's office was worried about impacts of the ethanol mandate The emails provide a window into how Pruitt's office dealt with the federal ethanol blending mandate for gasoline refiners.
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That's a lot of ethanol, but American consumers have reached the "blend wall" which is the maximum amount of ethanol that can be combined inexpensively with petroleum-based fuel.
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The move ends an agreement between the world's two largest ethanol producers, Brazil and the United States, to keep global ethanol trade free of taxes to boost the industry.
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Brazil's dramatic switch to ethanol this season slashed its sugar production by 20 percent and, if ethanol remains attractive next season, mills could allocate more cane to the biofuel.
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Ethanol has been shown to exert an antimicrobial effect on some microorganisms; however, the typical alcohol (ethanol) concentration of beer is too low to have much effect on microorganisms.
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Similar figures of respondents worry about the impact of high-ethanol fuel on their vehicles' engines and the cost of food if more corn is diverted to ethanol production.
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Petroleum interests want refineries freed from obligations to blend ethanol into the fuel supply, and farmers in key election states who grow the corn for ethanol balk at that.
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"The expectation is for some kind of gasoline price increase, which will benefit ethanol," he told Reuters on the sidelines of the Novacana Ethanol Conference 2019 in Sao Paulo.
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"The expectation is for some kind of gasoline price increase, which will benefit ethanol," he told Reuters on the sidelines of the Novacana Ethanol Conference 2019 in Sao Paulo.
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Brazil would also like to work with India in the area of ethanol production which in turn would help New Delhi use more ethanol blends of gasoline, she said.
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The Trump administration appears to be moving toward a deal to placate ethanol interests who have blamed the president's deregulatory push for forcing the closing of 22019 ethanol plants.
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Wernick explains that the biofuels his lab is working on are potentially better replacements for standard fuels than ethanol, because ethanol doesn't burn the same way as gasoline and diesel.
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Burning ethanol in place of gasoline reduces carbon emissions by 43 percent, on average, according to federal analysis; other sources of renewable fuel, like cellulosic ethanol, reduce emissions even more.
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The big picture: The oil industry and ethanol producers have been stuck in a tug of war over ethanol rules for months, leaving the White House square in the middle.
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The Senate's hearing is a fresh start to demonstrate that Congress will stand up to Big Ethanol and protect Americans from the debilitating costs and impacts of the ethanol mandate.
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Iowa farmers and ethanol producers are livid over the latest iteration of the Trump administration's ethanol proposal, saying the president has reneged on a deal struck just 11 days before.
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"The ultimate weakness in the ethanol margin during the quarter was a result of too much ethanol being produced by the industry," GPRE Chief Executive Officer Todd Becker told analysts.
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Product mix also includes sale of hydrous, anhydrous, industrial ethanol and sanitizers, with the domestic ethanol market becoming more volatile following Petroleo Brasileiro S/A's (Petrobras) new fuel pricing policy.
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The Renewable Fuels Association, which represents U.S. ethanol makers, last month estimated that the waivers have reduced the amount of ethanol refiners are required to blend by 1.6 billion gallons.
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The agency would keep the 33 target for conventional ethanol at 15 billion gallons, unchanged from 2017, and set the requirement for advanced biofuels, including cellulosic ethanol, at 4.24 billion gallons.
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While that price faltered, ethanol prices at the coast have surged, helping plants owned by Pacific Ethanol Inc and White Energy in California and Texas to take advantage of higher prices.
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ETHANOL FIGHT DELAYS BILL: Several Midwestern Republicans are considering holding up a bill to reverse an Obama administration drilling rule in exchange for a vote on a piece of ethanol legislation.
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Previously, the higher mix of ethanol in fuels was banned under the Obama administration during the summer months as studies showed ethanol when burned during warmer temperatures greatly contributed to smog.
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And in April the president signaled support for the ethanol industry, saying he would change the biofuels policy that limits higher blends of 15 percent ethanol in gas during summer months.
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A loss of ethanol exports to China, formerly a top outlet for U.S. biofuel, as a result of President Donald Trump's trade war with Beijing also contributed to an ethanol oversupply.
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The ethanol industry, meanwhile, has been lobbying Pruitt to approve the use of gas blends with 15 percent of ethanol during summer months — a percentage currently prohibited due to pollution concerns.
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Chicago-based ADM, a leading ethanol producer, has also been criticized for allegedly manipulating the price of ethanol to profit from a short position it was holding in the derivatives market.
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The ethanol industry has long pushed for a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that would allow fuel stations to sell gasoline with 15 percent ethanol during the summer months.
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The ethanol industry has long pushed for a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that would allow fuel stations to sell gasoline with 2628 percent ethanol during the summer months.
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Besides ethanol, POET also produces 600 million pounds of corn oil, and 10 billion pounds of distillers grain (a byproduct of the ethanol production used as high protein livestock feed) annually.
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Corn use for ethanol has not risen in the last year, margins have been poor for several months, and ethanol stocks are at record high levels for the time of year.
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While much of the discussion around changing the RFS has been related to ethanol, it is clear that a cap on ethanol credit prices would especially affect the biodiesel industry adversely.
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The letter is the latest in the tug of war between oil refineries and ethanol producers, who have both complained about the EPA's latest proposed fix for the nation's ethanol program.
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Only 220006 billion gallons of that could be traditional ethanol made from feedstocks like corn and soy, while the rest would have to be other biofuels like cellulosic ethanol and biodiesel.
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ETHANOL GROUPS PREPARE FOR LOBBYING FIGHT: Two major players in the ethanol industry have tapped a new lobbying firm amid a growing fight over the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard.
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At the same time, the price of ethanol fell more than 30% between mid-June and mid-August, when the administration announced the latest list of refineries excused from ethanol blending.
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" Pacific Ethanol Inc: "Not a fan, not a fan.
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Ethanol is a fuel for cars, not for people. ■
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The anti-speculation measures have been twinned with another EPA proposal to expand sales of higher ethanol blends of gasoline, called E15, year-round, to help corn farmers supplying the ethanol industry.
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Some 40 percent of the yearly corn harvest is devoted to ethanol production, and last year for the first time, USDA projected corn for ethanol use to decline over the next decade.
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"Ethanol production would make total sense for Cuba, since the country is a net importer of energy," said Plinio Nastari, the chief sugar and ethanol analyst at Sao Paulo-based Datagro consultancy.
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The more than decade-old program has been embroiled in controversy, as corn ethanol producers and oil companies battle over how much ethanol can be blended with gasoline without major infrastructure changes.
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OIL LOBBY FIGHTING TRUMP ON ETHANOL: The oil industry is trying to stop the Trump administration from implementing a plan to allow more ethanol to be blended into gasoline during summer months.
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"We are running at two-thirds of our ethanol capacity, 300% on pharmaceutical ethanol, 120-150% on table sugar and even level on industrial sugar," Cristal Union CEO Alain Commissaire told Reuters.
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Geoff Cooper, president of the Renewable Fuels Association, which represents the ethanol industry, said almost every county that's home to the nation's 150 or so ethanol plants voted for Trump in 85033.
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Let ethanol compete and let us as farmers provide the domestic, renewable feedstocks to do so rather than seeing ethanol plants shut down as we import octane from India and South Korea.
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Last year, Japan revised its biofuel policy to allow 44% U.S. corn-based ethanol in imported gasoline additives, meaning the maximum impact on the U.S. ethanol industry could be 361 million liters.
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"If the person from the most pro-ethanol district in all of Iowa feels politically secure enough to support Cruz — who the ethanol industry hates — it means something has shifted," Biello said.
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A final measure, meant to appease the ethanol industry and corn states, would remove restrictions on gasoline made up of 15 percent ethanol, which can only be sold in the summer months.
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The Philadelphia area has one of the highest concentrations of fuel refiners on the East Coast, and they bear high costs to blend ethanol into gasoline or otherwise pay for ethanol credits.
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Ethanol groups praised the agency for maintaining the target for conventional ethanol, which is mostly produced from corn in the United States, but were critical of the move to lower the advanced targets.
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And have you stopped to think that if you need ethanol — yes, at this point in my sobriety I called wine ethanol, don't you wish you could have hung out with me then?
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And, I would not that there's a much more important government regulation to ethanol, and that's the EPA's blend wall that makes it illegal to sell mid-level blends of ethanol in gasoline.
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Op-Ed Contributor IOWA is the nation's top producer of corn, and nearly half of it ends up as ethanol, thanks to a government mandate that requires ethanol to be mixed into gasoline.
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They said the officials will present him with options on how to boost ethanol demand which farmers say has slumped since Trump's EPA granted exemptions from ethanol requirements to dozens of oil refineries.
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Trump delivered on a long-sought change lifting a summer ban on higher ethanol blends of gasoline, but farmers and ethanol producers say the refining exemptions have negated any benefits from that move.
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At the same time, Beijing imposed anti-dumping tariffs on imports of distillers' grains (DDGS), a byproduct of ethanol production, and hiked the tariffs on imports of the fuel, helping domestic ethanol producers.
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Distillation helps separate the water, ethanol and methanol out based on their boiling points—ethanol has a boiling point of 173.1 degrees Fahrenheit, and methanol has a boiling point of 148.5 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Time allowed a group of Republican senators from states with big ethanol interests to conjure up a demand that they would only vote yes if they got a policy backing ethanol in return.
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"As our sole sugarcane ethanol operation in Brazil, this asset is too small for ADM to compete effectively in a challenging ethanol environment," said Chris Cuddy, president of ADM's corn processing business unit.
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And while Brazilian ethanol often cannot compete with low-cost U.S. supplies, Brazil's cane-based ethanol has a lower carbon footprint that could appeal to governments striving to meet Paris climate agreement commitments.
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EPA also threw out three test fuels after preliminary results showed that ethanol lowered emissions of nitrogen oxides and other pollutants and otherwise altered its slate of test fuels to emphasize ethanol effects.
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The ethanol industry and corn state lawmakers have urged the EPA to stop issuing the waivers and to compensate for lost ethanol blending volumes by requiring non-exempted refineries to blend even more.
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TRUMP WANTS MORE ETHANOL: Meanwhile, Donald Trump called for federal officials to set the ethanol mandate at the levels written into law, higher than what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) most recently set.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese companies rushed to draw up plans to build new ethanol plants in the country's northeastern corn belt after Beijing set a target to use ethanol in gasoline nationwide by 2020.
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The formula unveiled by the agency last month would require refineries to add ethanol based on projections rather than the actual number of gallons exempted, something farmbelt states argued undercuts the ethanol program.
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The most sensible policy would be to abandon the "conventional fuels RFS," as the corn-based ethanol is described, and let the marketplace determine how much ethanol to use as a gasoline additive.
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As a result, the Environmental Protection Agency began scaling back the total amount of ethanol to be blended into gasoline in order to keep the gasoline-ethanol "blend wall" at about 2628 percent.
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Ethanol is made by using enzymes to break down and ferment sugars in organic materials, such as corn, but second generation ethanol, made from more stubborn cellulose using new processes, could raise production.
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Mills are also investing in storage tanks so they can hold onto ethanol and sell it when prices are higher, said Alexandre Figliolino, a former investment banker now advising sugar and ethanol companies.
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Brazil's ethanol producers, particularly in the northern of the country where most of the U.S. ethanol is entering the market, had demanded tariff protection and the Agriculture Ministry recommended a 17 percent levy.
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"If Brazil enters recession and we have lower ethanol consumption, we could see a much higher sugar mix," said Claudiu Covrig, a sugar and ethanol analyst with commodities analysts S&P Global Platts.
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While this goal may be lofty, India has increased imports of ethanol nearly four-fold in the past five years, and consumption of ethanol for fuel has risen nearly seven-fold since then.
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Meanwhile, ethanol industry groups argue the EPA needs to make up for lost time — asking the agency to require refineries add 85033 million gallons of ethanol the industry received waivers for in 2017.
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Ethanol absorbs water, which can cause problems with fuel quality, so gasoline is normally stored and transported by pipeline as blendstock and then blended with ethanol in local markets shortly before to sale.
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The new factory will balance the company product mix towards 44% sugar / 0003% ethanol (currently 34% sugar / 66% ethanol), noting that profitability of the sweetener has historically been above that of the biofuel.
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Despite confidence that a deal is near, which has let ethanol prices bounce up from recent lows, officials from states that are big producers of both corn and ethanol — especially Iowa — expressed caution.
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Now, most gasoline is blended with about 10 percent ethanol.
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The Trump administration has had to walk the ethanol tightrope.
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In Iowa they pander to corn farmers who produce ethanol.
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Ethanol traders expect companies to start announcing output cuts soon.
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Ethanol in France is made using sugar beet or cereal.
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We are taking ethanol and making products out of it.
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All of a sudden he said, uh, I'm for ethanol.
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Ted Cruz that he has changed his views on ethanol.
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Increased gasoline consumption has also helped ethanol producers, Irwin said.
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This is not good for core ethanol producers or consumers.
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Brazil last year imposed a tariff on U.S. ethanol imports.
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Trump's support for ethanol subsidies is a particular sore point.
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Environmental concerns with higher ethanol blends go beyond air quality.
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Then they rinse them and wash the bees in ethanol.
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However, producing ethanol does result in emission of carbon dioxide.
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N); and ethanol plant investor Rex American Resources Corp (REX.
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But Japan has been a negligible importer of U.S. ethanol.
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His stance on the ethanol mandate resulted in Iowa Gov.
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Iowans — and farmers in particular — largely support federal ethanol subsidies.
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In fact, ethanol mandates have required more production of corn.
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Fifteen billion gallons of ethanol is now produced from corn.
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The sector ranks second in the country in ethanol produced.
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The ethanol industry said it would likewise consider legal action.
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Raizen initially denied plans for corn ethanol production in Brazil.
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Brazil's millers can produce sugar or ethanol from their cane.
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Valero is also one of the largest U.S. ethanol manufacturers.
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U.S. gasoline sold in the summer contains 10 percent ethanol.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Joe Biden may have an ethanol problem.
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Beef for pork, ethanol for sugar, wheat for auto parts.
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"If you live in Iowa in a nice house, and send your kids to good schools, it's because of ethanol," said Eric Hakmiller, the president of Lincolnway Energy, an ethanol plant in Nevada, Iowa.
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The ethanol industry has said in the past that placing caps on the credits was a non-starter, and has instead argued for policies to increase volumes of ethanol in the U.S gasoline supply.
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In 2017, fuel ethanol capacity was 3.45 million tonnes, according to Zhuochuang, far short of the 15 million tonnes needed for a national roll-out of gasoline known as 'E10', containing 10 percent ethanol.
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Ethanol prices have risen substantially in recent months since the Brazilian government increased the minimum percentage of ethanol fuel to be blended into gasoline, boosting demand, BMI Research said in a report last month.
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Margins to produce ethanol in the Corn Belt - where most U.S. production takes place - have fallen to a four-year seasonal low, while ethanol inventories are at the highest seasonally since at least 153.
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The plan is expected to include allowing exported ethanol to count toward the mandate -- effectively reducing the mandated volume -- while allowing higher ethanol blends to be sold in the summer than are currently allowed.
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The plan is expected to include allowing exported ethanol to count toward the mandate — effectively reducing the mandated volume — while allowing higher ethanol blends to be sold in the summer than are currently allowed.
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In 22.5, fuel ethanol capacity was 3.45 million tonnes, according to Zhuochuang, far short of the 15 million tonnes needed for a national roll-out of gasoline known as 'E10', containing 10 percent ethanol.
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Cruz's victory, ethanol opponents say, could alter the conventional wisdom about the fuel's currency as an electoral issue in the Midwest, which produces most of the agricultural products such as corn that become ethanol.
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Darrel McAlexander, a southwest Iowa farmer who met Mr. Trump at an ethanol plant in June, said in an interview last week that he felt betrayed by the exemptions that lessened demand for ethanol.
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The company said it was transitioning its plant in York, Nebraska, to industrial-grade ethanol that can be used in paint and cosmetic products and will eventually upgrade that facility to produce beverage ethanol.
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Allowing oil companies to count gallons of exported ethanol toward their RFS obligation doesn't expand the market for ethanol; it artificially increases the supply of RINs and, again, abrogates the intent of the RFS.
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Brazilian sugar and ethanol producers are making changes to their installations to allow for increased sugar production at the expense of ethanol, aiming to take advantage of higher prices for the sweetener in the market.
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Iowa, the nation's largest producer of corn and ethanol, is a swing state won by Democrat Barack Obama in consecutive elections before Trump rode to victory in 2016 in part by promising to support ethanol.
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The delivery halt to the most important U.S. ethanol delivery point and home for benchmark cash pricing is the latest sign of a growing ethanol inventory glut amid escalating trade wars and flat domestic demand.
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If he did, Mr. Cruz would be the first candidate to do so while pledging to phase out the federal ethanol standard, which requires corn-derived ethanol and other biofuels to be mixed with gasoline.
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Big Oil has resisted efforts to grant the same waiver to blends with 85033 percent ethanol even though volatility and emissions decrease as the amount of ethanol in the blended fuel increases from 10 percent.
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But Trump's actions on ethanol -- allowing for year-round use of high ethanol E-15 fuel and vowing to reconsider waivers for refineries -- show he considers those farmers an important part of his base, too.
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The usual cop-out is to say that corn ethanol is complicated and troubled, but cellulosic ethanol is coming and will make everything better (because we could turn perennial grasses and corn cobs into fuel).
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian ethanol exports to California have been boosted recently by high carbon credits prices in the Californian market, which led to premiums to cane-based ethanol, Brazil's Datagro consultancy said on Monday.
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"The best ethanol can produce as much as 90 percent fewer lifecycle emissions compared to gasoline, but the worst ethanol can produce significantly more lifecycle emissions than gasoline," according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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Ethanol sales have risen sharply in France, boosted by tax breaks, a decline in diesel demand and the growing use of so-called "flex-fuel" kits that allow cars to run on high-ethanol fuel.
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Corn farmers and ethanol producers say the Trump administration's broad use of the refinery exemption program undermines demand for ethanol and point to several biofuels plants that have halted production in the last few months.
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Corn farmers and ethanol producers say the Trump administration's broad use of the refinery exemption program undermines demand for ethanol and point to several biofuels plants that have halted production in the last few months.
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Has the ethanol silly season come to an end for good?
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But no similar breakthrough in ethanol technology has advanced the industry.
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To be exact, Lovejoy is carrying ethyl alcohol (ethanol) and sugar.
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Alcohol, technically "ethanol," is a simple chemical with powerful neurological effects.
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The two tanks contain about 250,000 gallons of ethanol, Hill said.
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Most U.S. ethanol is produced in the Midwest corn-belt states.
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Refiners dismiss the argument, saying ethanol demand has not been impacted.
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Neither Pacific Ethanol nor Candlewood could immediately be reached for comment.
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The ethanol and flavor chemicals move through the chambers and condense.
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One jet is a dissolved polymer, and the other is ethanol.
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Added to this, the ethanol industry has been through difficult times.
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This was expected to bolster the country's demand for U.S. ethanol.
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Still, ethanol producers using sorghum for biofuel are reducing corn demand.
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The other car was leaking ethanol through a gasket, he said.
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Refiners dismiss the argument, saying ethanol demand has not been affected.
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Fisher also had cocaine, methadone, ethanol and opiates in her system.
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Across the country, 184 counties are home to 205 ethanol plants.
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Ethanol inventories rose to 23.4 million barrels, highest seasonally since 2010.
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Brazil is the second largest ethanol maker after the United States.
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The same portion did not know if ethanol affected their mileage.
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China's current ethanol production is around 2.5 million tonnes a year.
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But instead, conflict is escalating over trade, ethanol and offshore drilling.
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Ninety-seven percent America's motor fuel is blended with homegrown ethanol.
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Kim Reynolds (R), who clashes often with the administration over ethanol.
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Ethanol producers have been angling for the removal of the ban.
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He was disqualified for using ethanol and lost his bronze medal.
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It's unclear what Trump thinks Democrats would do about ethanol policy.
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Farmers argue that the waivers hurt their investment in ethanol production.
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In Iowa, the federal policy boosting ethanol production is politically sacred.
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Cruz, for example, opposes the federal ethanol mandate; Trump supports it.
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Refiners eliminated MTBE from blending operations and switched entirely to ethanol.
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Ethanol is bad for your boat's engine, and its fuel system.
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But gasoline containing ethanol is less efficient than gasoline without it.
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Ethanol fuel is one of the main uses for U.S. corn.
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But Ausberger also sells a lot of corn to ethanol plants.
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The ethanol industry was a new buyer around for Ausberger's corn.
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Basically, it was good for everyone but farmers and ethanol producers.
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This is positive for Praj industries, a leader in ethanol technology.
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The facility will produce 221 million gallons of ethanol a year.
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Ethanol has been one of the Trump administration's most intractable problems.
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That, however, doesn't mean that ethanol is better than gasoline, either.
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Still, the US consumed 13 billion gallons of ethanol in 2014.
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At one stop, his adviser Mr. Tyler invited reporters to watch him place a Cruz campaign sticker on the back of the ethanol group's R.V. By the end of the tour, Mr. Cruz had begun bringing up his ethanol position even without prompting from the audience, joking that the negative mailers from the ethanol lobby would make "great kindling" for voters' fireplaces.
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President Michel Temer was joined at the inauguration by Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi, who pledged the government's support for corn-based ethanol - an innovation in a country that has long made ethanol more efficiently from sugarcane.
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Corn-base ethanol is a novelty in a country producing ethanol from sugarcane since the government in the 1970s started its biofuel program to find an alternative to oil-based fuels during the oil supply shocks.
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POET, the nation's leading ethanol producer at two billion gallons a year, last month filed a complaint about the issue with CME, which sets the rules for the ethanol swap contract, the company confirmed to Reuters.
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Ethanol groups praised the move, but signaled that more needed to be done to rectify some of the EPA's activities around the small refinery program and to boost use of higher ethanol blends in the marketplace.
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Around 38% of America's corn is used to make ethanol, but the process is of questionable value to the environment, and the sale of fuel containing 15% ethanol is banned in the summer because of smog.
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U.S. ethanol imports could feature in upcoming purchases, said Friedrichs, helping Trump win support from ethanol producers, one of his voter bases which has been hit by waning Chinese demand and U.S. initiatives affecting the industry.
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Shares of ethanol producers surged after state media reported that China plans nationwide use of ethanol in gasoline fuel by 2020, as Beijing intensifies its push to boost industrial demand for corn and reduce choking smog.
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Unlike Brazil, where sugar firms produce ethanol directly from cane juice, Indian millers use molasses, a by-product of sugar-making, to produce the chemical, so a rise in sugar production will also boost ethanol output.
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"He said they have the authority" to allow higher-ethanol gasoline sales year-round, said Bill Pracht, president and CEO of East Kansas Agri-Energy, after Pruitt visited his ethanol plant in the town of Garnett.
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Depressed sugar prices have led Brazilian companies to increase their capacity to produce ethanol, with many mills able to switch between using cane to produce either sugar or biofuel ethanol depending on which is more profitable.
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NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Major U.S. ethanol producer Green Plains Inc is shutting down two ethanol plants in Iowa and cutting output at another in Minnesota due to low profit margins, three industry sources told Reuters.
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Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), one of the top targets for Democrats in 2016, is using the bill to push for changes to the federal ethanol mandate, using language aimed at reducing the use of corn ethanol.
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Julio Maria Borges, a partner at sugar and ethanol consultancy JOB Economia, said potential returns in reais from sugar exports surpassed those of local ethanol sales this week for the first time in the last three years.
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U.S. groups representing ethanol producers, such as the Renewables Fuels Association, are against the imposition of taxes, saying they would go against Brazil's own longstanding view that tariffs would harm the development of a global ethanol industry.
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Margins to produce ethanol in the Corn Belt - where most U.S. production takes place - have fallen to a four-year seasonal low, while ethanol inventories are at the highest seasonally since at least 153.
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"In that case, ethanol produced in Brazil's center-south could be shipped from Sao Paulo along the coast to the Northeast," Mizutani told Reuters in the sidelines of the Ethanol Summit, organized by cane industry group Unica.
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Trump, meanwhile, has recently gone out of his way to make it clear that he loves ethanol very very much: Trump, who almost always speaks without a script, reads aloud long statement about his support of ethanol.
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But ethanol is currently stuck at around 10 percent of the gasoline supply — a contentious issue known as the "blend wall" — and there's a fierce debate over whether ethanol is actually an improvement, climate-wise, over gasoline.
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At Tuesday's meeting, Grassley and Ernst were asked to consider accepting a proposed ceiling on the price of RINs in exchange for a concession to the ethanol that would allow broader sales of higher-ethanol gasoline blends.
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Margins to produce ethanol in the Corn Belt ETH-CB-REF - where most U.S. production takes place - have fallen to a four-year seasonal low, while ethanol inventories are at the highest seasonally since at least 153.
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Buyers of foreign ethanol will now have to follow a rule applied to Brazilian ethanol producers regarding minimum stocks to guarantee supplies in the market, according to a government decision published in the official gazette on Monday.
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"Ethanol is the great American success story," said Emily Skor, chief executive of Growth Energy, a group that represents ethanol suppliers and producers, including Dow Chemical and DuPont, two big agricultural companies working on a complex merger.
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"The evidence indicates that ... much of ADMs behavior was economically irrational and contrary to its self-interest as an ethanol producer -- unless it was intended to manipulate physical ethanol prices at the Argo Terminal," the lawsuit said.
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Cruz last year proposed limiting the price of RINs to 10 cents, a fraction of their current value – an idea that was roundly rejected by the ethanol industry as a disincentive for new ethanol blending infrastructure investment.
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Falling oil demand due to the coronavirus outbreak has led to the full closure of nearly three dozen U.S. ethanol plants, which could take one-fifth of ethanol production capacity offline by the end of the month.
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After months of promises, a betrayal, and then a renewed vow to revise a federal ethanol program, the Trump administration last week unveiled its proposal for ensuring corn-based ethanol gets blended into the nation's fuel supply.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Logum, the company operating Brazil's sole ethanol pipeline, is looking to expand the system into central Brazil to reach more plants and possibly the nascent corn-based ethanol industry, which is expected to grow.
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Brazil has renewed and increased the size of its tariff-free quota for ethanol, a move seen mainly benefiting the United States, the world's largest ethanol producer and essentially the lone exporter of the biofuel to Brazil.
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Brazil has renewed and increased the size of its tariff-free quota for ethanol, a move seen mainly benefiting the United States, the world's largest ethanol producer and essentially the lone exporter of the biofuel to Brazil.
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As the deadline for comments on ethanol policy passed just after Thanksgiving, both sides -- ethanol producers and the oil and gas industry -- have weighed in to let the agency know how unhappy they are with the proposal.
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Cruz last year proposed limiting the price of RINs to 10 cents, a fraction of their current value an idea that was roundly rejected by the ethanol industry as a disincentive for new ethanol blending infrastructure investment.
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Perhaps it's time to cut down on my units of herbal ethanol.
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Most gasoline in the United States consists of about 10 percent ethanol.
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Where are you on the mandatory ethanol standard, and precisely this question.
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He said beef, pork, wheat, dairy products, wine, and ethanol would benefit.
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But worries about demand for corn-based ethanol hung over the market.
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For Democrats who are promoting their environmentalist roots, ethanol is similarly fraught.
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The surge follows years of negligible imports of U.S. ethanol to Malaysia.
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While dismissively termed the "ethanol mandate," the standard is about much more.
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RUBIO: That's not an accurate assessment of what I said about ethanol.
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DDGS have become a key contributor to U.S. ethanol producers' bottom lines.
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U.S. ethanol inventories have swollen to near-record highs in recent weeks.
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Ethanol also corrodes metal pipes, and isn't compatible with the existing infrastructure.
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NEW YORK, June 11 (Reuters) - Joe Biden may have an ethanol problem.
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Ethanol mandates have opened a war between the oil and corn industries.
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We're told he tested positive for Xanax, cocaine, heroin, and ethanol (alcohol).
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The RFS was designed to help boost use of biofuels, including ethanol.
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I don't believe in subsidies that prop up corn, soybeans and ethanol.
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By comparison, the United States taxes Brazilian ethanol by only 2.5 percent.
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Several factories have been set up specifically to process cassava into ethanol.
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The ethanol industry's view of Trump's biofuels policy is a mixed bag.
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When ethanol is added to gasoline, drivers get fewer miles per gallon.
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Ethanol and farm groups have sued the EPA over the refinery exemptions.
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In the first phase, the droplet remains transparent while the ethanol evaporates.
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The measure has strong support in Iowa, the nation's leading ethanol producer.
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When refiners needed a clean, healthy alternative to MTBE, they embraced ethanol.
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"No other candidate is focusing on the future for ethanol," he said.
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Instead of expanding wildlife habitat, the ethanol mandate is steadily reducing it.
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Most gasoline now sold in the United States is 10 percent ethanol.
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Chemicals, including the ethanol in alcoholic drinks, absorb light to varying degrees.
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First, researchers had to confirm that ethanol (EtOH) really does cause overeating.
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Nearly every gallon of gasoline now has 10% ethanol blended into it.
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No matter what the drink, the active ingredient is the same: ethanol.
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The solution: the Renewable Fuel Standard, commonly known as the ethanol mandate.
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But the reality is that ethanol is a clean and renewable biofuel.
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Regional gas stations claimed it because they mix ethanol with base fuel.
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On that pass it seemed pretty cut and dry: Ethanol appeared worse.
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Ausberger isn't sure if the ethanol issue will sway him against Cruz.
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"With the ethanol industry, too much is never enough," Mr. Segal said.
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His autopsy revealed he had oxycodone, fentanyl and ethanol in his system.
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His autopsy revealed he had oxycodone, fentanyl and ethanol in his system.
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China is now unlikely to require large ethanol supplies without the mandate.
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After, they washed the ice twice, first with ethanol and then water.
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Police are investigating whether the ethanol company was responsible for the accident.
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The Iowa senators and ethanol interests say those changes would be devastating.
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Biofuel advocates hope the lifting of the ban will boost ethanol sales.
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USDA did not report any sorghum use in ethanol in August 2015.
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He was impressed by the California Air Resource Board's assessment of ethanol.
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Concentrations of ethanol, for example, were some five times higher than expected.
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Deep in the plant, sugar from corn kernels is fermented to make ethanol, a reaction that also produces CO2 eminently easy to "capture": You just have to separate the gas from the ethanol and remove a little water.
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Trump delivered on a change long-sought by the biofuel community to lift a summer ban on higher ethanol blends of gasoline, but farmers and ethanol producers say the refining exemptions have negated any benefits from that move.
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Production mix, or the cane allocation between sugar and ethanol at plants, remains very similar to last year when mills earmarked 36% of cane to sugar production, a record-low amount, with all the rest going to ethanol.
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ADM will sell a sugarcane plantation and an ethanol distillery, which is capable of crushing up to 1.5 million tons of sugarcane and producing 37,000 gallons of ethanol per year, to JFLim Participações S.A. Terms were not disclosed.
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Pruitt, a key figure in ongoing debate between the ethanol and natural gas industry over the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), faced strong criticism during a roundtable at the East Kansas Agri-Energy LLC ethanol plant in Garnett, Kan.
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Below are a list of ethanol plants under construction or planned: SDIC is building an ethanol plant with 3503,000 tonnes of annual capacity in Liaoning province, expected to go online in August, according to executives at the company.
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Pruitt, a key figure in ongoing debate between the ethanol and natural gas industry over the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), faced strong criticism during a roundtable at the East Kansas Agri-Energy LLC ethanol plant in Garnett, Kan.
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The deal would have effectively reduce the amount of corn-based ethanol U.S. refiners were required to blend, while also allowing summertime sales of gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol, a practice EPA currently bans due to smog concerns.
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The source, who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak publicly on the discussion, said Trump also expressed support for expanding sales of high-ethanol gasoline – a tweak long-sought by ethanol producers.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Spanish ethanol producer Abengoa and Belgium peer Alcogroup have been charged by European Union antitrust regulators with rigging ethanol benchmarks and are likely to face fines next year, two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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SAO PAULO, May 15 (Reuters) - Brazil needs to protect its ethanol industry from U.S. corn ethanol with measures other than import tariffs, Mining and Energy Minister Fernando Coelho said on Monday, adding that new tariffs could provoke damaging retaliation.
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UDOP said, citing information from the energy department in Brazil's foreign relations ministry, that Bolsonaro's government plans to help India to boost ethanol production and open the Indian market for the biofuel, helping to expand global use of ethanol.
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Chicago-based ADM, one of the world's top ethanol makers, has made presentations to seven potential buyers and expects bids for the ethanol assets by the end of August, the company said during a earnings-day call with analysts.
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The centerpiece of the Cornyn plan includes the creation of a new type of ethanol RIN credit - called a D8 RIN - that the Republican lawmaker believes would lower the price of the existing ethanol blending credits, the sources said.
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That's why I, along with scores of other veterans who work in the ethanol industry, sent a letter to President Trump after his inauguration encouraging him to stand by his campaign promise to support ethanol and protect the RFS.
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They're worried that the change would reduce the incentive for the ethanol and corn industries to negotiate major reforms to the Renewable Fuel Standard, the federal policy that requires fuel refiners to blend specified amounts of ethanol into gasoline.
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Some 13 ethanol plants have shut since November 228, roughly 245% of the nation's capacity, in a decline the biofuel industry blames on the Trump administration's expanded use of waivers to exempt oil refineries from blending ethanol into gasoline.
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Some 2300 ethanol plants have shut since November 22020, roughly 268% of the nations capacity, in a decline the biofuel industry blames on the Trump administrations expanded use of waivers to exempt oil refineries from blending ethanol into gasoline.
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"The sugar-ethanol parity was 15.45 cents on Tuesday," said Michael McDougall, managing director at broker Paragon Global Markets in New York, referring to the price sugar should be to reward mills at same level as their ethanol sales.
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Some 2300 ethanol plants have shut since November 22020, roughly 268% of the nation's capacity, in a decline the biofuel industry blames on the Trump administration's expanded use of waivers to exempt oil refineries from blending ethanol into gasoline.
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But analysts said China will likely have to resume imports soon, with domestic production unlikely to meet the demand for ethanol needed to meet the government target of having all gasoline nationwide blended with 10 percent ethanol by 13.
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The agency limited the amount of ethanol in the market to around 2628 billion barrels while expanding blending waivers for small refiners — which destroyed the demand-signals ethanol-makers in the Midwest were counting on to build their market.
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At this point, Martin said, there is no reason to end the Renewable Fuel Standard: There's demand for corn ethanol even without the government mandate, so the ethanol haters wouldn't get their wish even if you repealed the rule.
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It ensures the goldfish only release ethanol through fermentation, rather than dangerous acids.
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Raízen is Brazil's second-largest fuel distributor, and also a large ethanol maker.
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It requires energy firms to blend ethanol and biodiesel into gasoline and diesel.
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Ethanol interests have so far refused to budge on proposals to change it.
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"It would make no sense to treat ethanol separately now," the source said.
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Ethanol headed for the West Coast market has been trapped in the Midwest.
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CRUZ: Well, Chris, I'm glad to discuss my views on ethanol and energy.
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One of LanzaTech's biggest initiatives is producing jet fuel from its sustainable ethanol.
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LanzaTech has also shown it can produce ethanol from municipal waste in Japan.
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Other major traders are alsy trying to distance themselves from struggling ethanol businesses.
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For decades, ethanol has been a true litmus test in the Hawkeye State.
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That included 15 billion gallons of conventional biofuels like ethanol, unchanged from 15.53.
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Ballyvolane then buys in the whey ethanol from Carbery at 96 percent alcohol.
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You need special modifications to run your car on ethanol or similar biofuels.
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Tianjin will later replace ordinary gasoline with ethanol at other stations in October.
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Alternative fuels such as ethanol, hydrogen and natural gas are becoming increasingly important.
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Iowa grows most of the nation's corn, which is used to produce ethanol.
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It also made ethanol uncompetitive with gasoline, costing producers $22 billion, he added.
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Two of the derailed cars were carrying ethanol and were leaking, it said.
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But the full category description covers "denatured" alcohol, which includes corn-based ethanol.
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Sales of C-Blend gasoline, which is mixed with ethanol, rose 4.6 percent.
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Weekly data on U.S. supplies of corn-based ethanol added to bearish sentiment.
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It and can be achieved by blending ethanol or other additives into fuel.
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A modest volume of ethanol is blended into most gasoline throughout the country.
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Cruz has taken heat from ethanol interests, a major interest group in Iowa.
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So-called flex-fuel cars in Brazil operate on gasoline or hydrous ethanol.
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The drugs in Miller's system included fentanyl, cocaine, and ethanol, the coroner found.
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The New Energies segment produces biofuels like corn-derived ethanol and hydrogen fuel.
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Nearly every dime spent on ethanol stays right here in the United States.
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The government has made it mandatory to blend 5 percent ethanol in petrol.
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No. 2 ethanol producer POET LLC did not respond to requests for comment.
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The alternative is for merchant refiners to increase their ability to blend ethanol.
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RINs are simply numbered tags created when ethanol or another biofuel is produced.
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"So he built a small-scale ethanol plant on our farm," Broin said.
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"He obviously assumed that the ethanol mandate was a silver bullet," Shrum said.
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In the intervening years, the ethanol industry has ballooned into an economic juggernaut.
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"Corn ethanol is here to stay, especially in the country's midwest," said Coelho.
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That included 15 billion gallons of conventional biofuels like ethanol, unchanged from 2019.
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Now that prices have fallen, ethanol may not be important as other issues.
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But ethanol producers want the 10th Circuit decision to be applied more broadly.
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He is genuinely scary as a jalopy of a man running on ethanol.
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So, as we move south, talk less about ethanol and more about equity.
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ADM has also faced challenges with sluggish commodity prices and ethanol industry troubles.
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The gut works differently -- allowing the ethanol to pass through, hence the drunkenness.
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Second, reform the law by reducing the ethanol mandate for corn and soy.
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Heminger said U.S. refiners already rely on ethanol to boost octane in gasoline.
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Magazine ____ Michael Cohen's ventures spanned taxis, a casino boat, real estate and ethanol.
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Secondly, it bears repeating there is no such thing as an ethanol mandate.
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Around that time, Trump turned to ethanol as an attack line on Cruz.
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But ethanol supporters said the result was a net positive for the industry.
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While ethanol groups mostly hailed the move, oil industry representatives were largely critical.
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Wednesday's RFS hearing kicked off another public relations fight over the ethanol mandate.
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Trump told the rally that Democrats would "end ethanol" if given the chance.
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LanzaTech also gets royalties from the sale of the ethanol by the factories.
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Both the ethanol industry and the oil industry were disappointed with the proposal.
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Iowa grows most of the country's corn, which is used to produce ethanol.
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"They want an equivalent tariff-free quota for sugar in exchange for the tariff-free quota for ethanol," he said, adding that while that does not happen the most probable scenario is that Brazil will let the ethanol quota expire.
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"For the first time in my life I'll vote for a Democrat, for Joe Biden, because Trump will have lied to us about supporting ethanol," Mark Marquis, CEO of Illinois ethanol producer Marquis Energy, said in an interview on Tuesday.
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FS Bioenergia, which was the first venture to build an ethanol plant 100 percent based on corn in Brazil - where basically all ethanol is made from sugar cane - said it will spend 1 billion reais ($308 million) on the project.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian sugar mills are closely watching the 2019 U.S. corn crop for reduced harvests that could boost prices for the cereal, raising ethanol production costs there and opening room for Brazilian ethanol to gain domestic market share.
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In Brazil, the world's largest ethanol producer and one of Cuba's most important trading partners, companies are trying to recover from weak sugar and ethanol prices from 2010 to 2015, using a recent uptick to cut debt and improve installations.
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During his campaign, President-elect Trump pledged to support ethanol and the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), a program that ensures consumers will have access to lower-cost, American-made ethanol in a fuel market that is otherwise closed to competition.
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The tight ethanol supplies, along with refinery outages, boosted retail gasoline prices and led to some gas station shutdowns in the West as blenders there lacked the ethanol needed to blend with gasoline to make fuel that meets government regulations.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil is toughening requirements for ethanol importers to protect domestic producers from an incoming surge of U.S. corn ethanol, a minister said on Monday, adding that he opposed the idea of new tariffs that could trigger costly retaliation.
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While campaigning in January in Iowa, a major source of the corn-based ethanol, Mr. Trump supported an ethanol mandate, which is set to expire in 2022, and he criticized Senator Ted Cruz, one of his main rivals, for opposing it.
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Mato Grosso corn-ethanol producers are waiting for completion of a key road linking the center-west region to a river port in Miritituba, Para state, from where barges would take the ethanol to fuel distributors in North and Northeast Brazil.
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TRUMP LOVES ETHANOL: The Trump administration has finalized a plan that will allow higher ethanol gasoline to be sold in summer months, a decision that is likely to draw concern from environmentalists who say the fuel is harmful in warm temperatures.
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The Obama administration had previously ruled to limit the sale of the higher blend of ethanol during the summer months because of scientific studies that showed burning ethanol in warmer temperature leads to heightened ground-level ozone pollution and smog.
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In another sign the industry is making a longer-term bet on ethanol in step with Brazil's biofuels policy, JW, a leading Brazilian ethanol equipment maker, told Reuters it has hired 22018 people to cope with a surge in orders.
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But, the group's president said then, the White House had promised to make the switch in exchange for issuing a waiver that allows gasoline blends with 15 percent ethanol to be sold year-round, something long sought by the ethanol industry.
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Albuquerque and other government officials signed an order on Monday during the Ethanol Summit in Sao Paulo including the sugar and ethanol industry in the priority areas that can make use of that type of debt, locally known as 'debêntures incentivadas'.
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SAO PAULO, June 19 (Reuters) - Brazil's Sao Martinho SA , one of the country's largest sugar and ethanol producers, plans to build a facility to produce ethanol from corn in the state of Goiás, the company said in a securities filing.
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To be fair, the ethanol lobby has already had some big political successes this year: Bush, Sanders, and other candidates who made noises about ending, or reducing, the ethanol mandate have come around to supporting it after spending time in Iowa.
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The 28503th Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) program, which grants economic hardship waivers to small oil refineries that are otherwise required to blend ethanol into their supply, shortcut national goals for ethanol use.
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The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) program, which grants economic hardship waivers to small oil refineries that are otherwise required to blend ethanol into their supply, shortcut national goals for ethanol use.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday finalized a controversial rule on ethanol, cementing a proposal that has been heavily criticized by the nation's ethanol producers and the petroleum industry mandated to add the corn-based substance to their fuels.
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Frustration with Trump's ethanol policy Early in 2019, the farm industry was pleased Trump followed through with his promise to allow for the year-round sale of gasoline blended with 15% ethanol, known as E15, meant to boost demand for corn.
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Datagro's chief analyst Plinio Nastari said Brazilian ethanol receives a price premium to enter the California market due to its smaller carbon footprint compared with corn-based ethanol, what has allowed for increased volumes of exports in the last two months.
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As a consequence, his viewpoint regarding the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which requires oil companies to use an increasing amount of renewable fuels like ethanol and biodiesel to replace petroleum, is understandably skewed ("Ethanol mandate hurts corn farmers," Jan. 25).
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) removed positive quotes from Iowa's two senators from a release with the latest details on its plan to boost ethanol use — a proposal that is now being opposed by Iowa corn growers and ethanol producers.
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Ethanol blending: A bipartisan group of Senators sent a letter to the EPA chief Monday flagging recent comments by President Trump that he will allow the blending of natural gas and 15 percent of ethanol year-round--known as E15.
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The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), or ethanol mandate, was created by the 2005 Energy Policy Act and expanded in 2007, and establishes a quota for the amount ethanol that must blended with fuel as well as mandates for certain sub-categories.
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SAO PAULO, June 17 (Reuters) - Brazil's Copersucar SA, the world's largest sugar and ethanol merchant, projects that ethanol demand in the United States could increase by 50% when the new policy to year-round sales of E15 is fully implemented.
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Joni ErnstJoni Kay ErnstGOP cautions Graham against hauling Biden before Senate Farmers: New Trump ethanol proposal reneged on previous deal Overnight Energy: Farmers say EPA reneged on ethanol deal | EPA scrubs senators' quotes from controversial ethanol announcement | Perry unsure if he'll comply with subpoena | John Kerry criticizes lack of climate talk at debate MORE (R-Iowa) in the third quarter of 28500 in the Hawkeye State's competitive Senate race.
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For the beleaguered U.S. ethanol industry, the exports to Brazil have helped boost profits.
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Environmentalists, who have been critical of ethanol, called for Congress to reform the program.
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SA), Brazil's largest producer of sugar and ethanol, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.
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Iowa: This political battleground is known most for ethanol when it comes to energy.
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Iowa is the countrys leading producer of corn, which is used to produce ethanol.
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Demand for ethanol from China, Brazil and Mexico gave added momentum to industry expansion.
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What I said is that ethanol will phase out, it is phasing out now.
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Nearly all consumer hand sanitizers use ethanol or ethyl alcohol as their active ingredient.
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There are some cases where MEG is made of renewable sources such as ethanol.
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Trump and Clinton seem to agree on ethanol mandates and possibly subsidized corn insurance.
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Iowa is the country's leading producer of corn, which is used to produce ethanol.
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Sadly, because of their ethanol content, synthetic wines will still create very real hangovers.
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The company has been trying to sell two U.S. dry ethanol mills since 2016.
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State oil company Pemex says it neither produces nor imports gasoline oxygenated with ethanol.
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His stance against ethanol subsidies -- in Iowa -- was right and courageous, given the room.
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Gasoline blended with ethanol now makes up about 10% of the nation's gasoline supply.
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As a result, they have to buy RINs to comply with the ethanol mandate.
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Ethanol battles flare up, but can be resolved comparatively easy given their parochial nature.
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Go deeper on the policy and politics of ethanol with my colleague Amy Harder.
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Some also dilute shop-bought ethanol to make their version of vodka or raki.
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Corn is the primary U.S. feedstock for ethanol and soyoil is used in biodiesel.
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About 60 percent of the country's ethanol and sugar are produced in the state.
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Ethanol production fell to 1.95 billion liters from 2.08 billion liters late in July.
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Compounds like ethanol and acetone, however, were present in much higher amounts than predicted.
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As we've discussed before, all types of liquor contain the same alcoholic ingredient: ethanol.
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While renewable ethanol is an excellent option, this is not a mandate or prescriptive.
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The letter comes amid a fierce debate over possible changes to the ethanol mandate.
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The two Iowa senators want to increase the percentage of ethanol blended into gasoline.
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The result is that we are adding more and more ethanol into less fuel.
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Ethanol made from corn or soy is the dominant biofuel produced under the RFS.
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Well, a solution of water and 20 to 25 percent ethanol, to be precise.
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Many ethanol-industry watchers I spoke with were flabbergasted by this turn of events.
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Ethanol supports nearly 350,000 jobs nationwide, largely in rural communities that need them most.
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He also noted the governor's family makes "a ton of money" lobbying on ethanol.
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Cruz said the Iowa governor's family makes "a ton of money" lobbying on ethanol.
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"More American ethanol production means less dependence on foreign supplies," Trump told the crowd.
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Some analysts say the high RIN prices will create incentives for more ethanol consumption.
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China imported a record volume of ethanol in 2015 due to expensive domestic corn.
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China had an ethanol production capacity of 2.8 million tonnes in 2017, he said.
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RINs, in particular, were enacted about 10 years ago, initially for corn ethanol projects.
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Lawmakers envisioned biofuels made from plant material that's cleaner than corn ethanol to develop.
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That remains a long-shot because ethanol policy divides the Republican Party controlling Congress.
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For some voters, terrorism and healthcare are bigger issues than the state's ethanol industry.
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Iowa, the top ethanol-producing state, remains the stronghold of support for the program.
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Trump officials are caught between the president's allies in the ethanol and oil industries.
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The Post predicted that ethanol "could more than double its market" as a result.
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Yet it is also true that the strong rise in ethanol production has helped.
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The U.S. ethanol industry has not received a dime in federal subsidies since 2202.
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Brazil's ethanol production is largely based on sugarcane although some is produced from corn.
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EPE forecast an expansion of corn ethanol production to 3.4 billion liters by 2030.
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These harms are often traced back to ethanol, the key intoxicating agent in booze.
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There are different reasons for various stripes of conservatives to oppose the ethanol mandate.
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The waivers free refineries from having to blend biofuels like ethanol into their gasoline.
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Even without the disruption to the ethanol market, farmers have faced a difficult year.
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At least 15 ethanol plants have closed nationwide, according to the Des Moines Register.
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The sugar and ethanol group has overhauled its top management in the past year.
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Unfortunately, the political will to change a clearly broken ethanol mandate is sorely lacking.
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The American Coalition for Ethanol and National Farmers Union joined in filing the lawsuit.
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"The implementation of the Green Deal will inevitably lead to more ethanol," he said.
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The typical breakdown is 90 percent gasoline and 10 percent ethanol, know as E10.
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Ethanol is also a concern for owners of older vehicles, motorcycles and outdoor equipment.
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Much of the problem caused by ethanol in gasoline — is that alcohol absorbs water.
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The living room has an ethanol fireplace and opens up to the expansive terrace.
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Sometimes, the two states have turned a parochial issue (ethanol) into a national priority.
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Brazil, the other top producer of ethanol, is ramping up a bumper cane harvest.
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The waivers free refineries from having to blend biofuels like ethanol into their gasoline.
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The mandate included 15 billion gallons of conventional biofuels like ethanol, unchanged from 2019.
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The rule in question requires refiners to blend ethanol, a renewable fuel, into gasoline.
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Ethanol returned to the nation's political agenda amid the oil crisis of the 1970s.
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But it's another thing to ask what happens if we stopped growing ethanol corn.
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"As more advanced cellulosic ethanol becomes available there's a market for it," he said.
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ETHANOL UNIT Despite bullish signals for U.S. ethanol demand, Chief Financial Officer Ray Young told analysts "a case for consolidation" remains in the sector, which is in a historic downswing due to the U.S.-China trade war, excess domestic supply and weak margins.
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The plan included a two-year cap on credit prices, as well as a concession to the ethanol industry that would allow higher-ethanol blended gasoline to be sold year-round - something advocates said could drive down credit prices in the long term.
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Pedro Mizutani, vice president for strategy at Raízen, Brazil's largest sugar and ethanol company, says that if production costs rise too much for U.S. ethanol makers they could lose market share in Brazil's Northeast region, a traditional target market for U.S. exports.
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Fuel containing up to 2300 percent ethanol, known as SP2003-E2200, reinforced its position last year as the best-selling gasoline type in France, claiming an average 21 percent market share compared with about 20.8757 percent in 2017, ethanol producer group SNPAA said.
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This would incense not just environmentalists (who already hate Mr Trump), but also the oil lobby, which objects to the cost of the ethanol mandate, and big buyers of animal feed, whose bills go up if more corn is used to make ethanol.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators have charged Spanish ethanol producer Abengoa and Belgium peer Alcogroup of rigging ethanol benchmarks, a move likely to result in fines for the companies next year, two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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In August, 2016, Bob Dinneen, who runs a leading ethanol trade group, the Renewable Fuels Association, told the Houston Chronicle that the Renewable Fuel Standard functions basically as it should, providing incentives to refiners that blend ethanol and penalizing those which do not.
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EPA PUSHES PLAN TO INCREASE ETHANOL IN GAS: Trump on Tuesday advanced a plan that would expand the use of ethanol in gasoline across the U.S., a move pushed by corn farmers but expected to draw ire from the oil and gas industry.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iowa's Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency has "screwed" the U.S. ethanol industry and farmers by granting waivers to 31 small petroleum refineries, effectively exempting them from an obligation to use more ethanol in their products.
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NEW YORK, March 18 (Reuters) - Brazilian sugar and ethanol producers have started cane crushing for the new crop earlier than in the previous season, and are expected to produce more sugar and less ethanol, said consultancy and broker INTL FCStone on Wednesday.
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In addition, many environmentalists now question whether ethanol is that much cleaner than gasoline, given all of the fuel and water it takes to grow, harvest, transport and process corn into ethanol — not to mention its impact on the price of corn.
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The three workers were repairing the lid of a wastewater tank at an ethanol plant which belongs to Thai Ethanol Power Plc in the province of Khon Kaen, 390 km (240 miles) from the capital Bangkok, said Police Lieutenant Colonel Sarawut Dansuk.
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"The ethanol mandate is obsolete," said Scott Faber, the group's vice president of government affairs.
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Branstad has actively campaigned against Cruz because of his record against ethanol and renewable subsidies.
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The rule in question puts the onus on oil refineries to blend ethanol into gasoline.
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USDA cited increased sorghum exports as the reason for more corn being used for ethanol.
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These flies preferred not to eat fruit spiked with ethanol, something they'd normally find rewarding.
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Hydrous ethanol sales rose 42 percent as mills sought to escape low global sugar prices.
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That movement opens room for ethanol prices to rise as well, improving mills' profit margins.
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Although ethanol earnings trailed a year ago, lower corn prices boosted results in corn processing.
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It has since fostered a market for ethanol amounting to 15 billion gallons a year.
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Your liver has to break the toxin, ethanol, into something it can digest, called acetaldehyde.
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Green Plain Partners, another MLP, this one for ethanol, was in June of last year.
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Previously, only gasoline blends containing up to 10 percent ethanol could be sold year-round.
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Trump campaigned in 2016 as a champion for ethanol but also courted the oil industry.
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Mauritius and Belize, for example, are using cane to produce speciality sugars, ethanol and electricity.
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In Ontario petrol must be at least 5% ethanol; Manitoba insists on an 8.5% blend.
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Most U.S. gasoline includes roughly 10 percent corn-based ethanol as required by federal law.
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Louis Dreyfus Company BV spun off its Brazilian sugar and ethanol business Biosev in 2013.
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Copersucar trades sugar and ethanol on behalf of more than 20 associated companies in Brazil.
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"It is going to be 1 billion liters (of ethanol) more, or so," he said.
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Unlike in most markets around the world, ethanol is a common car fuel in Brazil.
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The RFS is intended to promote the production of biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel.
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It is also setting up a U.S. ethanol trading desk, sources told Reuters in May.
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Another possibility is an increase in the ethanol mandate—the percentage that fuel must contain.
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The top U.S. ethanol producer, Archer Daniels Midland Co, is also wielding its volume power.
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Can ethanol-producing bioreactors be used, instead, to turn biofuels into sugar people can eat?
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The company switched an ethanol plant in Texas that was running on corn to sorghum.
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The U.S. ethanol industry has become more dependent on exports due to big domestic stockpiles.
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So, why did corn farmers and ethanol industry workers vote for Trump on Election Day?
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Farmers also could increase their corn acreage but the corn-based ethanol industry is struggling.
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That could boost fuel prices, as U.S. law requires ethanol to be blended into gasoline.
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Whether the EPA's moves have hurt ethanol demand has been a topic of fierce debate.
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This sparked concern in U.S. ethanol producers that demand for the feed grain could suffer.
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"By the way, Ted is totally against ethanol, please remember that," Trump urged the crowd.
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He's on the defensive over his ethanol position, has had his religion and citizenship questioned.
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New York is considering raising its gasoline-blending limit to 15 percent ethanol, FuelFix reports.
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The requirements include 15 billion gallons for conventional biofuel, which is mainly corn-based ethanol.
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The advanced biofuels category includes a variety of fuels considered more environmentally friendly than ethanol.
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Shares of biofuels producers Green Plains Inc and Pacific Ethanol Inc rose after the news.
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They have no answer when we point out E15 and higher blends contain 10% ethanol.
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That corn provides low-cost raw material for the nascent ethanol industry there, Tomczyk says.
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Republicans from agriculture-heavy states questioned her commitment to the Renewable Fuel Standard ethanol mandate.
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The message is crystal clear: the ethanol mandate is flawed and producing costly unintended consequences.
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Iowa dominates the country's corn production, the feedstock that produces most of the country's ethanol.
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They probably won't get you as high as ethanol, but at least they're free—right?
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Eco-Energy moved 9 billion liters of ethanol in the 12 months ended in March.
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U.S. regulators have given ethanol shippers until 2023 to remove DOT 111s from the rails.
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Allowing exports to count toward obligations would have effectively lowered the amount of ethanol produced.
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Senators who met with Trump said that he is backing changes to the ethanol mandate.
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Cane areas in Sao Paulo, Brazil's No. 1 sugar and ethanol producer, were also impacted.
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The EPA's inspector general is currently preparing a report on the climate impacts of ethanol.
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The ethanol industry opposed shifting the point of obligation, and was represented by experienced lobbyists.
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Corn-based ethanol would survive and likely retain its share of the total fuel market.
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Ethanol producers may be hurting, but it is not because of the small refiner exemptions.
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Nearly half of Iowa-grown corn goes into ethanol, which both liberals and conservatives despise.
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But seemingly overnight, the relationship between ethanol and fossil fuels went from collaborative to combative.
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