The Heartland Institute

... U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Ethanol industry representatives even claim the blends... Massachusetts Institute of Technology that concluded ethanol does not reduce the cost of gasoline because ethanol possesses only two-thirds the energy... following documents provide additional information about ethanol... ...

... deposits? And then insist that corn ethanol is sustainable even though this year’s U.S. ethanol quota requires 40 percent of our corn crop, on an area the size of Iowa, billions of gallons of water, huge quantities of hydrocarbon-based pesticides, fertilizers, and tractor fuel, vast amounts of natural gas to... ...

... an increase in the amount of ethanol in gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent, and more stringent ambient air standards under the Clean Air Act. Particularly damaging was an EPA rule finalized in February 2012 that created new emissions standards for coal- and oil-fired electric utilities. According to an analysis... ...

Gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol causes even more damage to vehicle... petroleum products, found the 15 percent ethanol blend, known as E15, damaged engine... Institute says increasing the level of ethanol from 10 percent to 15 percent... not E15, and that pushing the ethanol content levels higher... ...

Government biofuel programs are causing the destruction of America’s grasslands, scientists report in a newly published study in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Spurred on by biofuel programs, America’s grasslands are disappearing at a pace comparable to deforestation rates in Brazil, Malaysia ...

... Florida service stations to sell only ethanol-blended gasoline. Energy experts say ethanol requirements raise transportation fuel costs, hike... Renewable Fuel Standard Act and its ethanol mandate. However, Adam Putnam, the state... Scott’s term, opposed repealing the ethanol mandate. Most Republicans in... ...

...After more than 50 years of declining food prices, ethanol subsidies and mandates have caused a... rising corn prices, caused primarily by ethanol subsidies and mandates, are the most... important factor in rising food prices. “Fuel ethanol production capacity, based almost entirely on... for family budgets,” the... ...

... s corn crop is used for ethanol production rather than food? Did you... the past several years after federal ethanol mandates began diverting corn to ethanol? The Mackinac Institute’s Bruce Walker... documenting these and other facts about ethanol and federal ethanol mandates. “Congress has done... ...

... that transportation fuel be blended with ethanol. Under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS... blend 3.2 billion gallons of ethanol into gasoline this year, rising to... have little, if any, impact on ethanol demand or energy prices over the... Say RFS Is ‘Broken’: EPA Denies Ethanol Mandate Waiver Requests... ...

...After more than 50 years of declining food prices, ethanol subsidies and mandates have caused a dramatic rise in U.S. food prices since 2005, data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show. The data were pulled together in a new study by FarmEcon LLC, an agriculture and food industry consulting firm. ...

... are unintended consequences of mandating corn ethanol usage and some of the future policy decisions the United States may make “could substantially exacerbate the impacts of climate change”... Read More CO2 Effects on Nitrogen Fixation in Soybeans (5 December 2012) According to the Chinese researchers who conducted... ...

Ethanol no longer qualifies for financial benefits... state funding for the production of ethanol derived from corn. The new law... state’s small group of corn ethanol producers. The money will now be... directed to other forms of renewable energy, including ethanol not derived from corn. Federal Preferences... ...

... Environmental Protection Agency to waive its ethanol fuel mandate until corn prices recede... Standard (RFS) empowers EPA to enforce ethanol fuel mandates. The Midwestern drought earlier... percentage of the corn crop for ethanol production. The RFS requires 13.2 billion gallons of ethanol be blended with... ...

... the tax code like the duplicative ethanol tax credit subsidy. Building on our earlier submissions to the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission, TCS offered $1.5 trillion worth of deficit reduction in our “Super Cuts for the Super Committee,” $300 billion more than needed to avoid sequestration. But rather than making the... ...

... policies that weaken the dollar, government ethanol mandates that have 40 percent of the nation’s corn crop going to motor fuel instead of food, and restrictions on oil drilling and building of new oil pipelines. Critics also say such a tax would damage financial markets and cost jobs instead of creating them. Would... ...

... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report ethanol mandates do not lower the price of gasoline, despite claims by the ethanol industry. ‘Implausible Economic Assumptions’ A recently... debunks the oft-repeated claim that ethanol usage reduces the price of gasoline at the pump. The MIT study, “Ethanol... ...

... More A Chinese Perspective on Corn-Ethanol Biofuels (5 September 2012) China’s... substantially dampened the momentum of corn-ethanol development in China”... Read More Effects of Long-Term Elevated CO2 on Net Photosynthesis and Dark Respiration Rates of Norway Spruce Needles (5 September 2012) It works on... ...

... has temporarily suspended operations at two ethanol production plants due to high corn prices and low ethanol demand. Valero suspended production at its... to produce 120 million gallons of ethanol per year. “Linden and Albion both... had higher-than-normal corn basis prices. Ethanol margins everywhere... ...

A recent study suggests that the air of countries going green may not be so clean ... or healthy!... Read More Additional New Research Reviews Impacts of Recurrent Estuarine Acidification on Wild Invertebrates (10 July 2012) How debilitating are they? The results of this study suggest that “at the population level, calcifying ...

Corn-derived ethanol has been heralded as the magic... companies to increase the amount of ethanol blended with gasoline above the currently... are 20 percent idle, several large ethanol refiners have filed for bankruptcy, and... matters worse, the cost of refining ethanol has recently increased because of... ...