U.S. Requires Gas and Diesel Contain More Biofuels Made From Crops

Making fuel from crops is a net loss. Cover that same ground in solar PV and you get way more net energy out.

The kind of crops you harvest with gas tractors?

Gas pumps have a sticker for 10% ethanol added. Most cars are not designed for higher than 10%.

Yay, more subsidies and red tape from the small government party!

What a coincidence that this came after China stopped buying our soybeans.

So you're just gonna use agriculture for fuel now and not food? Smart /s

Is it to make up for the BS Trump put American farmers through from the tariffs to the immigration crackdowns?

ADM says what?

Is this the same country that just paid a billion dollars to cancel a wind contract? 

This is a gift link. Excerpt: > President Trump on Friday [3/27/2026] released long-awaited quotas that dictate how much biofuel made from crops must be blended into the gasoline and diesel supply. The new rule increases biomass-based diesel—which is partly derived from soybeans—blending by more than 60%, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. It raises the biofuel requirement for all fuel by a lower percentage. > The regulatory requirement for U.S. refiners to blend billions of gallons of biofuel into fuel is closely watched by corn and soybean farmers. > It is also critical for companies such as Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge and Cargill, which buy crops from farmers and process grains and oilseeds into fuel, food ingredients and other products. ADM Chief Executive Juan Luciano said earlier this year that U.S. policy that enabled increased renewable diesel blending would help the company’s profits in 2026. > [...] > Consumers might not see much of an impact at the gas pump. Some biofuels supporters say blending more can lower fuel costs for Americans. Increased blends of renewable diesel probably won’t immediately impact American drivers, though higher ethanol contents in gas could help.

Oh so now you're looking for renewable alternatives?

Whatever happened to the party of the free market? Why not let the market determine this?

Aren't biofuels "woke"?

Worse gas mileage and more damaging to lots of vehicles

Socialism for land owners.

Hemp Biofuel, here we come!

https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?si=4OwTzTx_N2fZBKs5

Corn price is going up.

You know it’s really sad we don’t have a technology that could be promoted to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels… someone should really invent some sort of vehicle that used electrical power like a cordless drill! Or maybe some way to collect the power of wind, maybe could be built in open farm fields or out at sea so no one would see it.  The mean if the government is going to go to war to stop the flow of oil they really should think ahead and promote things that don’t use that oil. 

The irony of trump. His war on iran is going to push forward the alternative fuels narrative. Despite him fighting against it for so long.

That was a big circle but we did it!