Fuel Standards and Ethanol
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007My good buddy MJ over at Dyslexic Research forwarded me an article on how President Bush signed a bill to increase fuel efficiency standards to 35 MPG by the year 2020. Also lumped into the bill was a required ramp-up of the use of ethanol at refineries from about 6 billion gallons a year this year to 36 billion gallons by 2022 and additional mandates that by then at least 21 billion gallons are to come from feedstocks other than corn.
I like the fact that we’re raising fuel efficiency standards, finally. However I don’t think we’re exactly pushing …





