An economic evaluation of US biofuel expansion using the biofuel breakeven program with GHG accounting

AgBioForum

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 111-119

  Rosburg, Alicia ^a   Miranowski, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Biofuel policies; Biomass; Carbon tax; Cellulosic ethanol; Greenhouse gas emissions; Life cycle analysis; Renewable fuel standard

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861672035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1522936X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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