{"id":276605,"date":"2010-02-04T12:54:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2010-02-04T12:54:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:54:15","slug":"breaking-down-the-obama-biofuel-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/276605","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down the Obama Biofuel Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/files\/2010\/02\/cornfields.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4701\" title=\"cornfields\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/02\/cornfields.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cornfield at dusk on the Great Plains (Photo: James Jordan\/flickr)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Last year the U.S. produced 11.1 billion gallons of biofuel. Obama\u2019s new plan states that by 2022, 21 billion gallons of renewable fuels will need to come from so-called advanced biofuels.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>[Ed. Note: Yesterday, Tim Hurst over at <a href=\"http:\/\/ecopolitology.org\" >Ecopolitology<\/a> asked me to break down the recently released Obama administration plan to increase the amount of renewable fuels produced in our country from the current 11.1 billion gallons per year to 36 billion gallons per year in 2022. I happily obliged. The following is an excerpt from the post on Ecopolitology with a link at the end to <a href=\"http:\/\/ecopolitology.org\/2010\/02\/04\/breaking-down-obamas-biofuel-plan\/\" >read the full post<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-4700\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This decision has been a long time in coming. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) actually started the whole process. Until now, however, the strategy to get to the goals set forth in the EISA were terribly murky. With yesterday\u2019s announcement, the Obama Administration has set clear goals to achieving the required 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels by 2022. Last year the U.S. produced 11.1 billion gallons of biofuels. The new plan announced today states that by 2022, 21 billion gallons of renewable fuels will need to come from so-called advanced biofuels\u2014biofuels that have at least a 50% reduction in GHG emissions when compared to their gas and diesel counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the 21 billion gallons of advanced biofuels, requirements set forth by EISA dictated that any new renewable fuel facility constructed after enactment of EISA had to have at least a 20% reduction in GHG emissions when calculated on a lifecycle, cradle-to-grave basis\u2014this includes any new corn ethanol facilities.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/ecopolitology.org\/2010\/02\/04\/breaking-down-obamas-biofuel-plan\/\" >Read the rest of the post over at Ecopolitology&#8230;<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=VDQRCp_4Kn8:kVmmiC_hgbM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=VDQRCp_4Kn8:kVmmiC_hgbM:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=VDQRCp_4Kn8:kVmmiC_hgbM:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=VDQRCp_4Kn8:kVmmiC_hgbM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=VDQRCp_4Kn8:kVmmiC_hgbM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=VDQRCp_4Kn8:kVmmiC_hgbM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=VDQRCp_4Kn8:kVmmiC_hgbM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=VDQRCp_4Kn8:kVmmiC_hgbM:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/VDQRCp_4Kn8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cornfield at dusk on the Great Plains (Photo: James Jordan\/flickr) Last year the U.S. produced 11.1 billion gallons of biofuel. Obama\u2019s new plan states that by 2022, 21 billion gallons of renewable fuels will need to come from so-called advanced biofuels. [Ed. Note: Yesterday, Tim Hurst over at Ecopolitology asked me to break down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}