Are Land-use Emissions Scalable with Increasing Corn Ethanol Mandates in the United States?
In response to the Renewable Fuel Standard, the U.S. transportation sector now consumes a substantial amount (13.3 billion gallons in 2010) of ethanol. A key motivation for these mandates is to expand the consumption of biofuels in road transportation to both reduce foreign oil dependency and to red...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | en_US |
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MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103779 |