The share of corn used in ethanol production has been growing rapidly. USDA predicts that more than 30 percent of the … corn crop will be used for ethanol production in 2009/2010. Expanded corn acreage contributes to the application of more … ethanol production is consistent with a significant increase in quality-adjusted fertilizer use in selected corn states. …

biofuels production. We examine the impact of corn-based ethanol production in the United States on land use in other countries. …

global climate change and desire for reduced dependence on oil imports. Flexible-fuel vehicles that can run on ethanol …/gasoline blends of up to 85% ethanol and hybrid electric vehicles present two such opportunities. While production of both flexible …

The recent 9-billion-gallon increase in corn-based ethanol production, which resulted from a combination of rising …

whether E-10 ethanol-enhanced fuel contributes to acetaldehyde air pollution over the pre-ethanol methyl tertiary-buthyl ether …

This paper analyzes the impact of an ethanol import tariff in conjunction with a consumption mandate and tax credit. A … tax credit alone acts as a subsidy to ethanol producers, equally benefiting exporters like Brazil. If an import tariff is … imposed to offset the tax credit, world prices of ethanol decline by less than the tariff (unless oil prices are unaffected …

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 …