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Biofuel Conversation Intensifies In D.C.
Biofuel Conversation Intensifies In D.C.
Biofuel Conversation Intensifies In D.C.
Farm State lawmakers and biofuel groups are turning up the heat on the White House to approve year-round E15 sales amid the U.S. embargo of Russian oil and soaring gas prices. The crisis has sparked a fierce push by the biofuels industry and its backers in Congress to renew year-round sales of E15 ...
Farm Bureau Asks for Increased Domestic Energy Production
Farm Bureau Asks for Increased Domestic Energy Production
Farm Bureau Asks for Increased Domestic Energy Production
American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall sent a letter to the White House asking the Administration to take the necessary steps to address the high energy costs impacting all Americans. Over the past 15 months, oil prices have increased by 130% to more than $120 per barrel ...
Groups Ask for Year-Round Access to Biofuels
Groups Ask for Year-Round Access to Biofuels
Groups Ask for Year-Round Access to Biofuels
The top biofuel and farm advocate groups in the U.S. called on the administration to swiftly expand access to plentiful, lower-cost biofuels as fuel prices get closer to record levels. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is sparking fuel prices higher, and the EPA will soon finalize biofuel blending requirements for 2021 and 2022. The ...
Cooper: Renewable Fuels A Good Idea If War Starts
Cooper: Renewable Fuels A Good Idea If War Starts
Cooper: Renewable Fuels A Good Idea If War Starts
Gas and biofuel prices will go even higher amid conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but biofuel leaders argue that corn ethanol will still be cheaper than gasoline and able to meet demand. Geoff Cooper, President and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association says there’s no arguing that fuel prices go up during war. ...
Cooper: The U.S. Can’t Depend On Others For Transportation Needs
Cooper: The U.S. Can’t Depend On Others For Transportation Needs
Cooper: The U.S. Can’t Depend On Others For Transportation Needs
The warnings are out: war between Russia and Ukraine will drive fuel prices even higher. Biofuel interests say the U.S. response should be more, not less ethanol and biodiesel use, adding oil and gas are a Russian political weapon, while rare earth minerals for electric vehicles can be a Chinese weapon ...
Vilsack Already Thinking About Next Farm Bill
Vilsack Already Thinking About Next Farm Bill
Vilsack Already Thinking About Next Farm Bill
The Ag Secretary is already thinking about the 2023 Farm Bill. Tom Vilsack spoke before the House Agriculture Committee last week and mentioned the upcoming Farm Bill. The Secretary wants the committee to use the next Bill to help him move rural America from an “extractive economy” to a “circular economy.” He said a circ ...
Microsoft Puts $50 Million Into Sustainable Jet Fuel
Microsoft Puts $50 Million Into Sustainable Jet Fuel
Microsoft Puts $50 Million Into Sustainable Jet Fuel
Microsoft is putting $50 million into a LanzaJet facility in Georgia that will produce jet fuel from ethanol. LanzaJet said last week its facility will start producing sustainable jet fuel next year. Reuters said experts consider the airline industry one of the hardest to decarbonize ...
United Plane Flies One Engine on 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel
United Airlines flew more than 100 passengers to Washington, D.C. this week on a plane with one engine running on 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 used 500 gallons of sustainable aviation fuel in one engine and the same amount of conventional jet fuel in the other engine to further prove there are no operational differences between the two ...
Could Stepped-Up Basis Be Removed?  No Clear Answer Given
Could Stepped-Up Basis Be Removed? No Clear Answer Given
Could Stepped-Up Basis Be Removed? No Clear Answer Given
Farmers and ranchers are getting a little nervous that Congressional Democrats may still end their stepped-up basis tax break in favor of a capital gains tax at death. The question of if ending stepped-up basis as a revenue source is still on the table was recently put before Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden, with Oregon’s senior senator leaving open the possibility that the idea still had legs. B

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