The total cost to the consumer is estimated at $ 8.4 billion a year because producing the required corn feedstock increases corn prices.
By recycling materials to provide the feedstock for other products the amount of material going to incineration or landfill can be reduced.
With salt and coal, it formed the main feedstock for the chemical industry until about 1914.
Meanwhile, another form of agricultural feedstock for heating, biogas, seems to gain little encouragement from the Report.
The process for making fuel from biomass feedstock used in the 1800's is basically the same one used today.