14.5-million-gallon-per-year ethanol mandate
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pretty sure that should be Billions...
Re: “14.5-million-gallon-per-year ethanol mandate...pretty sure that should be Billions...”
Yes...
At the bottom of the article it restates the number as “14.5 billion gallons.”
I had no idea that much was produced.
In 2014, the USA consumed 137 billion gallons of gasoline.
Ethanol was 10.6% of that quantity, or almost 1 million barrels of ethanol per day!