Corn oil biofuel land use change emission impacts: sharing emission savings between ethanol and biodiesel

Abstract

“The results obtained from these simulations indicate that extracting corn oil reduces the induced land use emissions due to total biofuel production…. The bottom line is that more biofuel is produced from the same or fewer land resources, so total system land use emissions fall.”

Keywords:

• corn oil biodiesel
• land use impacts
• reduced fat distiller grains
• computable general equilibrium
• global economy

Acknowledgement

The authors wish to acknowledge the National Biodiesel Foundation for providing partial funding for this research.

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Notes on contributors

Farzad Taheripour

Wallace E. Tyner