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Earlier this year, ethanol and grain promotion groups applauded a decision by Japan’s government to allow U.S. ethanol to be used to make ETBE, an oxygenate blended into fuel used in that country’s cities, reports Successful Farming.
Japan decided that American ethanol has a small enough carbon footprint that it can be used in up to 44% of Japan’s ETBE, which has the potential to be a 95.5-million-gallon market for U.S. ethanol producers.
So far, though, U.S. ethanol isn’t going to Japan.
“We know that there’s no actual commercial shipments of U.S. ethanol happening yet,” said Tetsuo “Tommy” Hamamoto, Japan director for the U.S. Grains Council.
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