http://biomasshub.com/biodiesel-subsidy-boondoggle/ global bioenergy supply chain intelligence Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:38:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://biomasshub.com/biodiesel-subsidy-boondoggle/#comment-322 Making Sense of the Ethanol Subsidy in Three Issues | BIOMASS INTEL Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:36:16 +0000 http://www.biomassintel.com/?p=1596#comment-322 [...] has written that the combination of the RFS 2.0 and the VEETC ethanol tax credit (VEETC) is like paying someone to obey the speed limit.  He elaborated further in an article following up the Brazilian government’s recent [...] [...] has written that the combination of the RFS 2.0 and the VEETC ethanol tax credit (VEETC) is like paying someone to obey the speed limit.  He elaborated further in an article following up the Brazilian government’s recent [...]

]]> http://biomasshub.com/biodiesel-subsidy-boondoggle/#comment-321 The Ethanol Subsidy Debate Heats Up | BIOMASS INTEL Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:43:26 +0000 http://www.biomassintel.com/?p=1596#comment-321 [...] The trouble with the ethanol subsidies is that they go to the oil industry anyway, which get 45 cents per gallon for blending corn-derived fuel with gasoline.  The oil industry already must do so anyway under the EPA’s RFS 2.0, which requires 12 billion gallons this year and 15 billion gallons in 2015.  The incentive plus the mandate has been likened to being paid to not speed (see The Biodiesel Subsidy Boondoggle). [...] [...] The trouble with the ethanol subsidies is that they go to the oil industry anyway, which get 45 cents per gallon for blending corn-derived fuel with gasoline.  The oil industry already must do so anyway under the EPA’s RFS 2.0, which requires 12 billion gallons this year and 15 billion gallons in 2015.  The incentive plus the mandate has been likened to being paid to not speed (see The Biodiesel Subsidy Boondoggle). [...]

]]> http://biomasshub.com/biodiesel-subsidy-boondoggle/#comment-320 Biodiesel Back in the Game: Senate Votes to Extend Key $1 Tax Credit | BIOMASS INTEL Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:24:57 +0000 http://www.biomassintel.com/?p=1596#comment-320 [...] the industry could not compete on price with petroleum-based diesel (see Biomass Intel’s Subsidy Boondoggle post.  RFS2 rules issued by the EPA include strong “biomass-based biodiesel” or [...] [...] the industry could not compete on price with petroleum-based diesel (see Biomass Intel’s Subsidy Boondoggle post.  RFS2 rules issued by the EPA include strong “biomass-based biodiesel” or [...]

]]> http://biomasshub.com/biodiesel-subsidy-boondoggle/#comment-319 Ronald Steenblik Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:59:31 +0000 http://www.biomassintel.com/?p=1596#comment-319 Pleas explain how "[t]he effect of a mandate can be to ... lower biofuels prices." How so? A mandate does not restrict the amount sold, only sets a floor for the amount consumed. If biodiesel prices are low enough to make biodiesel a better deal than petroleum diesel, consumers will switch to biodiesel, thus bidding up the price until it is at parity with the price of petroleum diesel. Pleas explain how “[t]he effect of a mandate can be to … lower biofuels prices.” How so? A mandate does not restrict the amount sold, only sets a floor for the amount consumed. If biodiesel prices are low enough to make biodiesel a better deal than petroleum diesel, consumers will switch to biodiesel, thus bidding up the price until it is at parity with the price of petroleum diesel.

]]> http://biomasshub.com/biodiesel-subsidy-boondoggle/#comment-318 The Biodiesel Subsidy Boondoggle | BIOMASS INTEL | ALL DIESEL TECH Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:51:13 +0000 http://www.biomassintel.com/?p=1596#comment-318 [...] the original post: The Biodiesel Subsidy Boondoggle | BIOMASS INTEL Posted in Biodiesel, Diesel | Tags: bloomberg, commodity, commodity-prices, Diesel, energy, [...] [...] the original post: The Biodiesel Subsidy Boondoggle | BIOMASS INTEL Posted in Biodiesel, Diesel | Tags: bloomberg, commodity, commodity-prices, Diesel, energy, [...]

]]>