Posted on 04/23/2014 3:45:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Obama administration is significantly reducing the amount of cellulosic biofuels refiners will have to prove they blended into gasoline last year, acknowledging that the market lagged far behind government projections.
The EPA on Tuesday said it was basing its 2013 standard on the 810,185 ethanol-equivalent gallons produced with nonfood plants last year. …
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Scaling back is not the same as eliminating and like many other government programs, nothing is quite so immortal as a government program.
This article actually suggests the EPA actually can recognize reality ... but then the source, the AP, doesn’t recognize reality either.
They are NOT recognizing reality.
Reality:
The EPA on Tuesday said it was basing its 2013 standard on the 810,185 ethanol-equivalent gallons produced with nonfood plants last year.
EPA:
The EPA is proposing 17 million gallons as a target for 2014. The law required 1.75 billion gallons.
Change from complete nonsense to only utter nonsense is not recognizing reality. They are requiring the oil/gasoline companies to use more than 20 time the amount that exists.
Biofuels research, like a lot of research, generates huge amounts of what are basically waste products.
Scaling up research methods to all-out production yields a frightful amount of physical waste that is very expensive to dispose of, not to mention the required waste storage space and regulations.
The 810,185 number appears to be way off. I suspect .81 billion would be more like it.
Disclaimer: I am no fan of ethanol.
That is for the production of ethanol from cellulose material, not corn or other sugar sources.
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