美国政府正在实施有助于美国乙醇行业扩张的计划。农业部长上周在华盛顿国家新闻俱乐部的一次演讲中讨论了政府计划和激励措施。
“Incentives helped build the biofuel industry and incentives need to continue,” Vilsack said. “Congress should start by reinstating the Biodiesel Production Tax Credit and providing a fiscally responsible short-term extension of the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit. At the same time, we need to begin to think about reforms to the ethanol credit program to make it more efficient and effective at addressing the full range of challenges we face in meeting our goals for traditional and next generation biofuels.”
维尔萨克说，在过去几年乙醇行业收缩期间，美国失去了 12,000 个工作岗位。他还强调扩大更高混合乙醇的供应量至关重要，他宣布对可能适合乙醇生产的新生物质品种提供补贴。
“As research identifies alternative feed stocks and as biorefineries are built to process those feed stocks, producers must be encouraged to grow the feed stocks. The Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) will provide that assistance …The assistance could be as much as 75% of the cost of establishing the new crop as well as annual rental payments to help cover the costs of transitioning from current cash crops.”
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