The U.S. processes corn into alcohol fuel (biofuel) and sells it in order to make more money easily.
The U.S. processes corn into corn syrup and sells it in order to make more money easily.
It is wrong for the U.S. to say that there is a food shortage.
To begin with, the land of the U.S. is Indian land (Native Americans' land), not Anglo-Saxon land.
[Wikipedia]
Biofuel in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel_in_the_United_States
The United States produces mainly biodiesel and ethanol fuel, which uses corn as the main feedstock. The US is the world's largest producer of ethanol, having produced nearly 16 billion gallons in 2017 alone.
[Reuters]August 11, 2012
U.S. should change biofuel policy to avoid food crisis: U.N.
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/environment/us-should-change-biofuel-policy-to-avoid-food-crisis-un-idUSBRE8790K4/
The U.N.'s food agency stepped up the pressure on the United States on Friday to change its biofuel policies because of the danger of a world food crisis, arguing the importance of growing crops for food over their use for fuel.
Global alarm over the potential for a food crisis of the kind seen in 2007/08 has escalated as drought in the U.S. Midwest has sent grain prices to record highs, fuelling a 6 percent surge in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's July food price index.
The FAO's Director-General Jose Graziano Da Silva wrote in the Financial Times on Friday that competition for a U.S. corn crop that has been ravaged by the worst drought in 56 years was only going to intensify.
"Much of the reduced crop will be claimed by biofuel production in line with U.S. federal mandates, leaving even less for food and feed markets," he wrote in an editorial.
"An immediate, temporary suspension of that mandate would give some respite to the market and allow more of the crop to be channeled towards food and feed uses," he said in the high profile yet indirect message to Washington.
Under the five-year-old Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), U.S. fuel companies are required to ensure that 9 percent of their gasoline pools are made up of ethanol this year, which means converting some 40 percent of the corn crop into the biofuel.
[Bloomberg]June 14, 2025
Trump Plans Biofuel Quota Boost, Seeks to Crimp Imports
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-13/trump-plans-biofuel-quota-boost-seeks-to-crimp-foreign-supply
The Trump administration is proposing oil refiners blend more biofuels into gasoline and diesel next year, while seeking to discourage the use of imported supplies.
The plan unveiled by the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday would require refiners to mix a record 24.02 billion gallons of biofuels into conventional diesel and gasoline — nearly 8% higher than the 2025 target.
[Politicopro]06/13/2025
Trump EPA sets own path on biofuels blending levels
The agency is seeking to increase the volumes over the next two years to record levels.
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/06/trump-epa-sets-own-path-on-biofuels-blending-levels-00404744
The Trump administration proposed its first biofuel blending mandates on Friday, increasing volumes over the next two years to record levels but leaving open questions over exemptions from the mandates sought by small refiners.
The EPA's proposed volumes for 2026 and 2027 provide the first look into how the second Trump administration is positioning the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard.
The program requires refiners to blend a minimum volume of renewable fuels into the nation’s fuel mix or purchase tradable credits, known as renewable identification numbers, to comply.
[Reuters]November 15, 2025
White House hosts oil, biofuel talks as Trump administration nears decision on refinery waivers
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/white-house-hosts-oil-biofuel-talks-trump-administration-nears-decision-refinery-2025-11-13/
Summary
White House meets refiners and biofuel producers over waiver disputes
Talks include year-round E15 and waiver reforms
Biofuel groups push for waived gallons to be made up
The White House this week held separate meetings with oil refiners and biofuel producers as it seeks to resolve a long-running dispute over billions of gallons of U.S. biofuel-blending requirements that were waived for small refineries, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.
The discussions signal the Trump administration is nearing a decision on whether larger refiners must make up for any of the waived gallons, a decision originally expected by the end of October but delayed by the government shutdown.
The outreach underscores the administration’s effort to balance the competing demands of two politically powerful constituencies — the oil industry, which says federal blending mandates threaten refinery jobs, and the farm belt, which argues the waivers have eroded demand for corn-based ethanol and other biofuels.
The outcome could influence fuel prices, farm incomes and broader energy politics heading into next year.
The meetings, which included trade groups representing the largest U.S. refiners and biofuel companies, also touched on ways to make gasoline containing 15% ethanol, known as E15, available year-round.
The administration could package that move with reforms to the small refinery waiver program to win support from both industries, the sources said.
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米国は、金儲けのために、トウモロコシをアルコール燃料(バイオ燃料)に加工して売っている。
米国は、金儲けのために、トウモロコシをコーンシロップに加工して売っている。
食料が足りないと、米国が言うのはおかしい。
そもそも、米国の土地はインディアン(ネイティブ・アメリカン)の土地であり、アングロ・サクソンの土地ではない。
[Wikipedia]
Biofuel in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel_in_the_United_States
The United States produces mainly biodiesel and ethanol fuel, which uses corn as the main feedstock.
The US is the world's largest producer of ethanol, having produced nearly 16 billion gallons in 2017 alone.
米国はバイオディーゼルとエタノール燃料を製造しており、主にトウモロコシを利用する。
米国は世界最大のエタノール製造国。
[Reuters]August 11, 2012
U.S. should change biofuel policy to avoid food crisis: U.N.
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/environment/us-should-change-biofuel-policy-to-avoid-food-crisis-un-idUSBRE8790K4/
The U.N.'s food agency stepped up the pressure on the United States on Friday to change its biofuel policies because of the danger of a world food crisis, arguing the importance of growing crops for food over their use for fuel.
Global alarm over the potential for a food crisis of the kind seen in 2007/08 has escalated as drought in the U.S. Midwest has sent grain prices to record highs, fuelling a 6 percent surge in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's July food price index.
The FAO's Director-General Jose Graziano Da Silva wrote in the Financial Times on Friday that competition for a U.S. corn crop that has been ravaged by the worst drought in 56 years was only going to intensify.
"Much of the reduced crop will be claimed by biofuel production in line with U.S. federal mandates, leaving even less for food and feed markets," he wrote in an editorial.
"An immediate, temporary suspension of that mandate would give some respite to the market and allow more of the crop to be channeled towards food and feed uses," he said in the high profile yet indirect message to Washington.
Under the five-year-old Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), U.S. fuel companies are required to ensure that 9 percent of their gasoline pools are made up of ethanol this year, which means converting some 40 percent of the corn crop into the biofuel.
[Bloomberg]June 14, 2025
Trump Plans Biofuel Quota Boost, Seeks to Crimp Imports
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-13/trump-plans-biofuel-quota-boost-seeks-to-crimp-foreign-supply
The Trump administration is proposing oil refiners blend more biofuels into gasoline and diesel next year, while seeking to discourage the use of imported supplies.
The plan unveiled by the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday would require refiners to mix a record 24.02 billion gallons of biofuels into conventional diesel and gasoline — nearly 8% higher than the 2025 target.
[Politicopro]06/13/2025
Trump EPA sets own path on biofuels blending levels
The agency is seeking to increase the volumes over the next two years to record levels.
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/06/trump-epa-sets-own-path-on-biofuels-blending-levels-00404744
The Trump administration proposed its first biofuel blending mandates on Friday, increasing volumes over the next two years to record levels but leaving open questions over exemptions from the mandates sought by small refiners.
The EPA's proposed volumes for 2026 and 2027 provide the first look into how the second Trump administration is positioning the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard.
The program requires refiners to blend a minimum volume of renewable fuels into the nation’s fuel mix or purchase tradable credits, known as renewable identification numbers, to comply.
トランプ政権は、バイオ燃料の使用義務付けを新たに決定。
[Reuters]November 15, 2025
White House hosts oil, biofuel talks as Trump administration nears decision on refinery waivers
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/white-house-hosts-oil-biofuel-talks-trump-administration-nears-decision-refinery-2025-11-13/
Summary
White House meets refiners and biofuel producers over waiver disputes
Talks include year-round E15 and waiver reforms
Biofuel groups push for waived gallons to be made up
The White House this week held separate meetings with oil refiners and biofuel producers as it seeks to resolve a long-running dispute over billions of gallons of U.S. biofuel-blending requirements that were waived for small refineries, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.
The discussions signal the Trump administration is nearing a decision on whether larger refiners must make up for any of the waived gallons, a decision originally expected by the end of October but delayed by the government shutdown.
The outreach underscores the administration’s effort to balance the competing demands of two politically powerful constituencies — the oil industry, which says federal blending mandates threaten refinery jobs, and the farm belt, which argues the waivers have eroded demand for corn-based ethanol and other biofuels.
The outcome could influence fuel prices, farm incomes and broader energy politics heading into next year.
The meetings, which included trade groups representing the largest U.S. refiners and biofuel companies, also touched on ways to make gasoline containing 15% ethanol, known as E15, available year-round.
The administration could package that move with reforms to the small refinery waiver program to win support from both industries, the sources said.
石油団体は、バイオ燃料で損害を受けたと主張し、バイオ燃料団体はバイオ燃料義務付けが中小石油企業は免除されていることに反対している。
トランプ政権は、石油精製団体とバイオ燃料製造農業団体の両方の支持を得ようとしている。
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[ロイター]2012年8月11日
米国、食料危機回避へバイオ燃料政策変更すべき=国連
ttps://jp.reuters.com/article/world/-idUSTJE87901J/
国連食糧農業機関(FAO)のダシルバ事務局長は、世界が食料危機に陥る危険性があるなか、農作物は燃料よりも食料として重要とし、米国はバイオ燃料政策を変更すべきとの考えを示した。
事務局長は、10日付の英フィナンシャル・タイムズ(FT)紙に寄稿し、米国産トウモロコシは過去56年間で最悪の干ばつに見舞われ生産の大部分が縮小しているが「その大半は連邦法によりバイオ燃料として利用されることから、食料や飼料向けのトウモロコシはさらに減る」と指摘。
「当該法が速やかに一時停止されれば、市場に一定の安心感をもたらし、食料や飼料向けに流れる量が増える」と述べた。
[ブルムバーグ]2025年6月14日
トランプ米政権、ガソリンへのバイオ燃料混合量引き上げ-輸入抑制へ
ttps://www.bloomberg.co.jp/news/articles/2025-06-13/SXSQUMDWX2PS00
来年から、過去最高の240.2億万ガロンのバイオ燃料混合を義務付け
バイオ燃料の国内生産を促し、農村地域の支援と輸入抑制を目指す
トランプ米政権は石油精製業者に対し、ガソリンやディーゼル油へのバイオ燃料の混合を増やすよう提案している。輸入燃料の使用を抑制する狙いがある。
米環境保護局(EPA)が13日に公表したこの計画では、精製業者は来年からディーゼルやガソリンに過去最高の240億2000万ガロンのバイオ燃料を混合することが義務付けられる。2025年比で約8%の増加となる。ただ、一部の石油会社やバイオ燃料メーカーが求めていた水準には至らない。
トランプ大統領は議会が20年前に制定した再生可能燃料基準(RFS)制度の一部を見直し、国内需要の拡大と農村地域の支援を図る考えだ。EPAの今回の提案は、年間の混合目標を示すだけでなく、米国のバイオ燃料生産を促進し、輸入を抑制するための制度変更も盛り込んでいる。