Top 10 Biofuels Predictions for 2013

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December 27, 2012

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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) …As the sunset of 2012 gives way to the dawn of 2013, here at the Digest we resist the holiday temptation to look back over the challenges and highlights of the year gone by, and instead once again roll the dice as we list the Digest’s 10 Top Biofuels Predictions for 2013.
1. Fiscal cliff. …By letting all of the Bush-era tax breaks expire, and only restoring the majority of them, anti-tax lawmakers can say that they stayed true to their “read my lips, no new taxes” pledges.
2. US ethanol blend wall – E15 and blender pumps. …First, we continue to see adoption of biobutanol as a viable option, if the technology shakes out its kinks. …
4. RFS2. …We see RFS2 surviving the first half of 2013 intact, but the fall season looks tough — especially because corn ethanol producers, natgas-based technologies and algae developers have much to gain in opening up the RFS to fix problems in how feedstocks were defined. …
5. Hot Markets. …
6. Finance. …
The bonus, non-prediction prediction department — 11. The Return of Carbon …So – that places attention on California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, and concepts such as changing the standard of gasoline tax measurement to count carbon and fuel economy rather than gallonage. …
Last year’s predictions: 7.5 marks out of 10 … READ MORE and MORE (Biobased Digest)

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