Yet blenders and consumers have no means of distinguishing good biofuel from bad.
The company says home sales of blenders have jumped 700% since November 2006.
Items allowed include kettles, blenders, chargers, hair straighteners, irons, power tools and cameras.
From Glencairn Crystal glasses (the slightly tapered nosing glasses used by master blenders), hushed drinkers sip their Nikka single malts.
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However, producers no longer need that boost because gasoline blenders have to buy the ethanol whether they like it or not.
Third, elimination of the credit would not absolve gasoline blenders from meeting the mandates required by the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
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Essentially, it became a health-focused business that happens to make high-performance blenders.
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The answer lies in the fact that the ethanol industry still has a mandated market of over 12.5 billion gallons of product sold to gasoline blenders.
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But for gasoline blenders, ethanol at equal to or higher than the cost per gallon of gasoline was not a price that would compel them to buy ethanol.
Then, there is the 51-cent tax credit paid to blenders of the fuel and a 54-cent tariff on imported ethanol to keep cheaper foreign producers out of the market.
You can buy beautiful blenders, retro washing machines and vacuums that look like objects d'art from the space museum, but AC design has been frozen since the Summer of Sam.
There would be some efficiency and cost savings as the government got out of the business of administering the program and processing payments for gasoline blenders for the ethanol they use.
The boom in ethanol has been driven by three main components--a blenders' credit that creates an incentive for producers who add ethanol to their fuel, an import tariff that keeps out foreign competitors, and a renewable fuels standard that sets the level of production.
Denizen is a blend of 5 rums from Trinidad that are aged up to five years then blended with fifteen rums from Jamaica by blenders in Amsterdam, who have been blending rums since 1723 (Jamaican rums as a category tend to have more wight to them than their brothers and sisters of Puerto Rico and St Croix).
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