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
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.