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Article: USDA says ethanol output to fall short of Bush's target.(United States Department of Agriculture)
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- The Oil Daily
- Article date:
- March 29, 2007
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Based on forecasts by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), US biofuels production will total 13 billion gallons in 2016, which is 22 billion gallons short of President George W. Bush's target for renewable fuels in a decade.
"I don't think this is going to be easy to achieve," said the USDA's chief economist, Keith Collins, who was speaking at a conference sponsored by the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA) in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.
President Bush's plan to reduce US gasoline use by 20% in the next ten years by using considerably more biofuels is heavily dependent on a breakthrough in cellulosic ethanol--derived from ...