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EIA: US biodiesel and renewable diesel imports decline 36% in 2014

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Imports of biomass-based diesel fuel (both biodiesel and renewable diesel) into the US fell 36% to 333 million gallons in 2014, following record levels of imports in 2013 according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). US imports of biodiesel from Argentina fell by 57% from 2013 to 52 million gallons in 2014.

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EIA: US biomass-based diesel imports increased to record levels in 2013; from net exporter to net importer

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Total US imports of biomass-based diesel fuel—biodiesel and renewable diesel—reached 525 million gallons in 2013, compared to 61 million gallons in 2012, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). per gallon biodiesel blending tax credit, which expired on 31 December 2013. billion gallons to 1.28

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Global biofuels production up 17% in 2010 to hit all-time high of 105 billion liters

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High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other countries, are all factors behind the surge in production, according to research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute’s Climate and Energy Program for the website Vital Signs Online.

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USDA Long-Term Projections See Ongoing But Slower Growth in Corn Use for Ethanol

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USDA’s projections assume the ethanol tax credit (reduced to $0.45/gallon Less than half this volume is assumed to be from domestic first-use vegetable oils, partly due to the equalization of the biodiesel tax credit ($1.00 per gallon under the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008) across all feedstocks.

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California Goes To Hell In A Handbasket But Greenius Says AB 811 is Our Route To Green Heaven

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That’s why they have authorized over $7 billion bucks in energy efficiency and clean energy programs for the USA. And damned if California isn’t going to score like a horny Republican Governor on Viagra in Argentina. That means doing an energy retrofit on all of our 13.2 million existing housing units. (75%