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Biofuels Blog: EPA E15 Decision

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Biofuels Blog - The most reliable source of biofuels analysis on the internet. Monday, October 18, 2010. The EPA decision on the E15 waiver came as no surprise this week. The EPA ruled that E15 gasoline blends were okay for 2007 and later year model vehicles in the US. As we have stated numerous times in previous reports, a bifurcated market will not work. For example, The National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) told its members to exercise extreme caution on whether to sell E15 gasoline. In 40...

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Biofuels Blog: Future Prospect for the US Fuel Ethanol Industry

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Biofuels Blog - The most reliable source of biofuels analysis on the internet. Friday, January 14, 2011. Future Prospect for the US Fuel Ethanol Industry. The US fuel ethanol industry exhibits the same type of boom/bust cycles as the typical commodity chemical business, characterized by overbuilding of capacity outstripping demand and causing a collapse in prices. The RFS2 mandate for 2011 for corn-based ethanol is 12.6 billion gallons and grows by 600 million gallons per year until it hits a mandate...

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Biofuels Blog: E85 - Is It the Solution?

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Biofuels Blog - The most reliable source of biofuels analysis on the internet. Thursday, August 19, 2010. E85 - Is It the Solution? During the last several months, the key advocacy groups for ethanol have been split on the long term policy they want to advocate for ethanol in the face of the looming expiration of the tax credit and import tariff. In our opinion, for E85 to be successful long term, it must be cost competitive to the consumer on an energy-delivered basis compared to gasoline. Currently, th...

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Biofuels Blog: October 2010

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Biofuels Blog - The most reliable source of biofuels analysis on the internet. Monday, October 18, 2010. The EPA decision on the E15 waiver came as no surprise this week. The EPA ruled that E15 gasoline blends were okay for 2007 and later year model vehicles in the US. As we have stated numerous times in previous reports, a bifurcated market will not work. For example, The National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) told its members to exercise extreme caution on whether to sell E15 gasoline. In 40...

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Biofuels Blog: August 2010

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Biofuels Blog - The most reliable source of biofuels analysis on the internet. Thursday, August 19, 2010. E85 - Is It the Solution? During the last several months, the key advocacy groups for ethanol have been split on the long term policy they want to advocate for ethanol in the face of the looming expiration of the tax credit and import tariff. In our opinion, for E85 to be successful long term, it must be cost competitive to the consumer on an energy-delivered basis compared to gasoline. Currently, th...

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Biofuels Blog: January 2011

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Biofuels Blog - The most reliable source of biofuels analysis on the internet. Monday, January 31, 2011. E15 - The Politics of Implementation. As we reported in an earlier newsletter several months ago, the American Petroleum Institute (API) commissioned a study by Sierra Research, Inc., that reviewed all the state and federal regulatory changes required for the implementation of E15 in the gasoline pool. Regulatory action is much easier in the sense that the vast majority of bureaucrats inhabiting regul...

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Biofuels Blog: July 2010

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Biofuels Blog - The most reliable source of biofuels analysis on the internet. Thursday, July 29, 2010. Brazil’s Import Barriers. Brazil made a big show of reducing their ethanol import tariff to zero earlier this year in order to spark the debate about the US ethanol import tariff that is up for renewal at the end of this year. Brazilian representatives cast themselves as supporters of free trade. Brazil has imposed non- tariff barriers in two ways. One, the ethanol specification used for import req...

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Biofuels Blog: Brazil's Potential Role in Ethanol Trade

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Biofuels Blog - The most reliable source of biofuels analysis on the internet. Monday, November 15, 2010. Brazil's Potential Role in Ethanol Trade. This year, Brazil’s exports have tracked at a level 50% below last year’s exports. It is our opinion that Brazil’s participation in the international fuel ethanol market is going to be very limited over the next two years. The following is a list of factors that will contribute to keeping Brazil off the fuel ethanol export market:. High sugar prices generatin...

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Biofuels Blog: E15 - The Politics of Implementation

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Biofuels Blog - The most reliable source of biofuels analysis on the internet. Monday, January 31, 2011. E15 - The Politics of Implementation. As we reported in an earlier newsletter several months ago, the American Petroleum Institute (API) commissioned a study by Sierra Research, Inc., that reviewed all the state and federal regulatory changes required for the implementation of E15 in the gasoline pool. Regulatory action is much easier in the sense that the vast majority of bureaucrats inhabiting regul...