The upcoming rule to implement the standard comes as the corn ethanol industry is reeling from weakened demand and the financial crisis, prompting some plants to close.
The industry is leaning on EPA to issue a finding that allows higher ethanol blends in gasoline than the current 10 percent limit in order to expand the market.
The new 2009 annual outlook by the Renewable Fuels Association—a major ethanol trade group—warns that the industry is "quickly careening toward the blend wall," or the point at which the gasoline market is saturated with as much ethanol as it can handle at the 10 percent level.
"Without a change in federal standards, that level of ethanol use will undermine the goals of the RFS and become an unwarranted cap on the growth of this industry and the development of next-generation technologies," it states. The issue is under EPA review as agencies gauge how higher blends would affect engines and emissions.
The industry is posed to produce in excess of 10 billion gallons of ethanol this year, according to the trade group.
Reprinted from Greenwire with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. www.eenews.net, 202-628-6500
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Add CommentI am Ghazanfar Khan, Born 4th time in this world. I am Only 900 years old this time I am planning not to die ever again. I have found a computer graphic card about which is 786 trillion years old. Is it a god graphic card? Well science has to find it out first only then we will declare it god ok.
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I am untruthful?
I am not reasonable?
87 years ago I found X58 Mobo, 200 million years old, actually it is a complete computer system found absolutely intact. Everything works perfectly and faster then any other computer because this X58 Mobo is equipped with Core i7 965 clocked at 3.2 Giga Hertz, 2000 Mhz DDR 3 Ram with very tight timings. A 2 Giga Byte DDR 5 Memory handled Graphic Card, 8 Channel Sound Card and each and everything necessary for massive computing.
Yes believe me it is a miracle that it came to existence because all the material was available on earth even before that period. I am a scientist. Science says that if a frog is turned into a prince with a kiss then its not true but if a frog turns into human in million years then it is science. Evolutionary Science to be exact. It evolved and each and everything took the best possible shape to support each other and work in perfect harmony. It evolved because of time.
I had some Nitrogen Oxide in hand so I decided to overclock the computer and this rig fro 3.2 Gigz to 6.5 Giga Hertz. Everything was working fine then I thought that I would require a good Graphical User Interface in order to take full advantage of power hungry beast. I looked at Darwin’s evolution and man they never let you down they just handed me over full functional copy of Windows 7 though Microsoft is in the development process of it but evolution said nothing is required, no work is required, leave those thousands of idiots working in Microsoft and develop one software in many years. We evolutionists are here; have your copy of Windows 7 With Service Pack 4 pre installed and enjoyyy.
I am absolutely lucky that I have got such a great mechanism without the need of anything and knowledge because evolutions theories were helping me. I deny that the processor was made to work at 3.2 Giga Hertz. It was I who took it from 3.2 to 6.5 Gigz. Nothing in between it. There is absolutely no, no and no requirement of sense, knowledge, fabrication process, computer languages and other things associated with it.
Conclusion: It is declared by me and evolutionsts no AMD and no Intel required. computer is far simpler in design and functions when compared to 50 million different species.
Fastest super computer made by human costs around 130 million dollars and is about 500,000 times faster than what we use at home… this super computer houses in area more than 5000 square feet But there is another fact… A honey bee computes 100,000,000,000 times faster than this fastest super computer of human being..
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisEvolutionists see the creation of man on this link then cell design , Atom, Immune system, Respiratory System, Brain, Blue Planet Earth, Creation of Universe and other videos…
http://www.harunyahya.com/en.m_video_index.php
Allah has told us that not even a single creature or thing is created useless meaning everything has its own purpose of existence. It is the thinking of disbelievers that all of the things and their own life meant no purpose/reason.
After That research on Quran
www.QuranEnglish.com hear Translation of Quran (Complete 114 Chapters)
Quran is accepted as the most difficult book ever to be translated and because it’s the final revelation to human beings so its un-editable as promised by our Creator/Lord. Not a single word has changed in 1400+ years and number of facts stated in the Quran are increasing with the advancement of science. Today 80% of the Quran is proven to be absolutely scientific. The religion spreads peace though human leaves the guidance and becomes enemy to humanity. Spread the only religion in existence and earn the reward in a shape which neither you nor can I imagine…
Those who ask/pray anyone else other then Allah/Creator of all what we see and what we don’t (The only deity) are wrong doers.
Quran Chapter No 112
Say Allah is only one and there is no one beside him.
Allah requires absolutely nothing. (meaning that Allah is beyond any/all need)
Allah has no parents and no son or daughter.
There is no one greater than or equal to Allah by any means.
Producing ethanol has one major drawback : It still needs fertilisers made from fossil fuels, so it produces CO2 and affects Climate Change. If you must create CO2, then sequester it via Biomass pyrolysis. The technology is there, all that is needed is to scale it up.
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