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Biofuel production must increase to 36 billion gallons by the year 2022, according to government mandates. The majority of this fuel must be produced from “advanced” or second-generation biofuel feedstocks after 2015. Advanced biofuel feedstocks include annual crops such as sweet sorghum....
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. Both the ethanol and biodiesel industries have experienced tremendous growth in the past few years. The production of these …
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This article estimates factors that impact location decisions by new ethanol plants using logistic regression analysis … competing ethanol plant reduces the likelihood of making a positive location decision and this impact decreases with distance …. State-level subsidies are significant and a very important factor impacting ethanol location decisions. …
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Using pooled regional time-series data and panel data estimation, we quantify the impact of monthly ethanol production … on monthly retail regular gasoline prices. This analysis suggests that the growth in ethanol production has caused retail … negative impact of ethanol on gasoline prices varies considerably across regions. The Midwest region has the biggest impact, at …
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estimates. To bring more clarity to this issue, we review studies on U.S. corn ethanol expansion released between 2008 and 2013 …. Normalizing corn price impacts by the increase in corn ethanol volume, we find that each billion gallon expansion in ethanol …, projection year, inclusion of ethanol co-products, international biofuel production, and baseline and policy ethanol volumes …
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Among many, increasing the price of municipal water is considered to be the most effective mechanism for enhancing municipal water conservation, whether during times of drought or not. However, increasing the price of something that is considered to be, literally, a life-giving resource is...
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hundred percent of ethanol. This paper investigates how motorists arbitrage between hydrous ethanol and gasoline using … demands for hydrous ethanol and gasoline. I estimate using nonlinear seemingly unrelated regressions the demands for hydrous … ethanol and gasoline in Brazil, and motorists preferences for hydrous ethanol. I nd that on average, accounting for the …
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In this study stylized gasoline blender’s optimal hedging strategy in the presence of ethanol mandates is analyzed. In …
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and ethanol policies on farmland values and rental rates. Using weighted ordinary least squares and two stage least … squares, we find that government payments, urban pressure and the proximity of the farm to an ethanol facility have a positive …
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