The rollback recommended by the Renewable Fuels Standards Advisory Committee would have allowed trucks to continue to emit black carbon, or “soot,” at a higher level and for longer than under the original plan.
You can, but that will only substitute for a fairly small fraction of US transport needs
To put this in context, california has a similar biofuels content requirement, which uses about 40% of soybean oil in the US, while displacing a few percent of the state’s diesel use
Should be the entire country, not just Portland. We grow plenty of corn
Not nearly enough for 100% biofuels. Solar electric uses something like 1/100 of the land for a given amount of transportation.
A biofuels requirement like this is effectively a soft inducement to electrify transport, albeit with huge deforestation risk.
Maybe they can use all those soybeans that China won’t buy from us anymore. /s
You can, but that will only substitute for a fairly small fraction of US transport needs
To put this in context, california has a similar biofuels content requirement, which uses about 40% of soybean oil in the US, while displacing a few percent of the state’s diesel use
Added a /s.
Honestly it’s wasteful to grow crops for fuel because of all the water needed to grow it.
eat it
can’t fuel be made from the bioresidues of agriculture through pyrolisis or sth?
Biofuel is not an answer to fixing the climate. And corn is an inefficient crop to use for it anyway