US ethanol potential may now exceed US gasoline consumption

Biofuels Digest
September 14, 2009 Jim Lane

Complete conversion: can it become real?
For a number of years, biofuels studies have suggested that, even under the most optimistic scenarios, biofuel production in the United States could only replace a fraction of overall US fuel consumption.

The most optimistic scenarios — produced by the Sandia National Laboratory — previously suggested a limit of 90 billion gallons of biofuel. However, a combination of slowing US gasoline demand, and rising yields from cellulosic and first-generation fuel technologies, suggest that, at least on the gasoline side, US resources may in fact exceed total demand.

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