Beauty to downgrade biofuel usage provoke controversy

Last week launched a proposal to the epa, suggested by the American energy independence and security act 2007 established in 2014, the U.S. fuel composition of target, the amount of biofuels added has aroused heated debate.

Oil industry departments that the environmental protection agency (epa) share the suggestion of adding ethanol fuel is still too big; Biological fuel advocates objected, saying to change the renewable fuel standard is likely to growing the devastating advanced biofuels industry. After the public comments, spring finally decided the amount of epa biofuel will give added.

Specifically, according to the epa's proposal, in 2014 the United States add corn ethanol fuel consumption of 13.01 billion gallons, not advanced corn-based biofuels (mainly biodiesel) for the end of 2.2 billion gallons.

It is understood that the purpose of the United States at the beginning to develop renewable energy standard is to promote renewable, and the development of the production of biofuels in the United States, so as to realize the independence of the United States energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions of transportation industry.

Although corn ethanol production since the law was introduced in recent years, it is more than expected, but with people to reduce greenhouse gas emissions more hope, with cellulose biomass as raw material to commercialization of advanced biofuels so slow relaxation.

Currently, the benefits of almost all gasoline contains 10% ethanol. In 2010, the United States environmental protection agency (epa) has, irrespective of the oil industry is strongly opposed to approve some motor vehicle use of blending gasoline ethanol content as high as 15%. Analysts believe that the environmental protection agency (epa) of the proposal reflects such a scenario: on the one hand, the gasoline consumption showed a trend of decline in the United States, on the other hand of corn-based ethanol production is growing.

Biofuels are supporters of the environmental protection agency (epa) cut biofuel usage. They think it will be investment in biofuels industry. Composed of U.S. biofuel production enterprises, a spokesman for the biotechnology industry organization, brent erickson said that the proposal of the environmental protection agency (epa) will no doubt make biofuels are the door to the market down, at the same time also reduces the investment for the development of the renewable fuels industry confidence.

American petroleum institute (API) support cut biofuels dosage, but the decline is not big enough. The association President, said jack HeLaDe maintain blend ethanol policy may hurt consumers, and congress to the best way to protect the interests of consumers is to abolish the untimely, difficult to run gasoline blending biological fuel standard. Due to blend ethanol policy, consumers now have to put a certain amount of ethanol into the tank, the amount of ethanol has been above the level of the automobile engine can afford.