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Canada to Mandate 5 % Ethanol in Gasoline by 2010

Canada to Mandate 5 % Ethanol in Gasoline by 2010 Venture Capital is Shifting from Creating Clean Power to Energy Conservation

Not exact matches

An assessment paid for by DuPont said that the ethanol it will produce there could be more than 100 per cent better than gasoline in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

According to analyses that have been published in Science and carried out by the California Air Resources Board, corn - based ethanol is actually worse than gasoline, mainly because growing more corn for ethanol forces farmers to clear additional grasslands and forests to grow food crops.

A Northwestern University study by an economist and a chemist reports that when fuel prices drove residents of São Paulo, Brazil, to mostly switch from ethanol to gasoline in their flexible - fuel vehicles, local ozone levels dropped 20 percent.

Gasoline prices in Brazil are controlled by the government, and the domestic sugar price — and therefore the domestic price of ethanol — is determined by the world sugar price.

If ethanol safely supports a 15:1 CR in a naturally - aspirated application where gasoline can only go up to 10:1 before detonation becomes a concern, one can expect the effective working pressure to improve by up to 50 % (of course, the engine's compression ratio will physically have to be altered to take advantage of ethanol).

By federal and state regulation, nearly all gasoline sold by retailers in the US has up to 10 % ethanol blended into it to comply with the US Renewable Fuel Standards as part of the Energy Independence and Security AcBy federal and state regulation, nearly all gasoline sold by retailers in the US has up to 10 % ethanol blended into it to comply with the US Renewable Fuel Standards as part of the Energy Independence and Security Acby retailers in the US has up to 10 % ethanol blended into it to comply with the US Renewable Fuel Standards as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act.

Based on the just released Low Carbon Fuel Standard prepared by the University of California for the Governor, «regular» gasoline as a value of 85 — 92 g CO2 eq / MJ, while natural gas has a value of ~ 80 g CO2 eq / MJ, electricity in California has an average value of 27 g CO2 eq / MJ (when used to drive an electric vehicle), and cellulosic ethanol derived from municipal solid waste is ~ 5 g CO2 eq / MJ.

While ethanol, for example derived from corn but distilled in a facility powered by coal was, in fact, on average worse, than gasoline, some of the envisioned cellulosic - based biofuels could be dramatically better on a g CO2 eq / MJ basis.

Biofuels Digest quotes Barbassa as saying that gasoline has now become «the alternative fuel»: In fact Petrobras predicts that by 2020 that the gasoline market for light vehicles will shrink by 17 %, with ethanol use increasing.

In a report released last month, the GAO underscored the evaporative problems posed by ethanol, saying that compensating for ethanol forces refiners to remove certain liquids from their gasoline: «Removing these components and reprocessing them or diverting them to other products increases the cost of making ethanol - blended gasoline.»

Mid-range gasoline - ethanol blends (greater than 10 percent and less than 85 percent ethanol) should only be used in vehicles approved for their use by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Meanwhile, a 2007 study by a Stanford University environmental engineer found that increasing ethanol levels in gasoline can lead to more smog.

But it misleads by saying in a graphic that ethanol produces «34 - 88 % lower carbon than gasoline today.»

Third, there can be — indeed, has been — a major impact in the U.S. motor fuels sector, where the market for biofuels (mainly ethanol) is negatively affected by low conventional gasoline prices.

Almost as bad are regulations requiring the use of corn ethanol, which clearly only benefit corn producers and processors at the expense of gasoline users and illustrates how government interference in private markets can be used by special interests to reallocate income to themselves.

Opponents make compelling case but can't derail or even slow this well - protected industry Guest opinion by Paul Driessen Like most people I've spoken with, I have no innate, inflexible antipathy to ethanol in gasoline.

Robert Zubrin thinks the United States can break free from the grip of Middle East oil - producing countries by immediately mandating that all cars sold in this country be «flex - fuel vehicles,» capable of running on gasoline, ethanol or methanol.

CARD claims that from January 2000 to December 2011, «the growth in ethanol production reduced wholesale gasoline prices by $ 0.29 per gallon on average across all regions,» and that in 2011 ethanol lowered gasoline prices by a whopping $ 1.09 per gallon.

In a free market, refiners would have blended less ethanol and produced more gasoline than they did in the market rigged by the RFS and other pro-ethanol policieIn a free market, refiners would have blended less ethanol and produced more gasoline than they did in the market rigged by the RFS and other pro-ethanol policiein the market rigged by the RFS and other pro-ethanol policies.

The shipping costs to transport the ethanol by rail to the Northwest will also slightly decrease the already marginal improvement in petrloleum and fossil energy use per mile travelled on ethanol relative to gasoline.

Producers generally sell directly to fueling stations, which explains why ethanol has taken root in the Midwest, center of U.S. corn production, or send it by rail to terminals to be blended with gasoline.

[68] The U.S. consumed 138.2 × 109 US gal (523 × 106 m3) of gasoline in 2008, blended with about 9.6 × 109 US gal (36 × 106 m3) of ethanol, representing a market share of almost 7 % of supply by volume.

According to a 2008 analysis by Iowa State University, the growth in U.S. ethanol fuel production caused retail gasoline prices to be 29 — 40 cents per gallon lower than would otherwise have been the case.

But «the day is not far distant when...» (gasoline is replaced by ethanol) hasn't happened in over 100 years, so he definitely missed on that one.

Replacing MTBE by ethanol requires only a percent of ethanol in gasoline.

When we assume the ethanol production process is fully renewable, it would take all the corn in the country to displace about 3.5 percent of our gasoline consumption — only slightly more than we could displace by making sure drivers» tires are inflated properly.

A new study by the Energy Research Policy Foundation, Inc. (EPRINC) further debunks the popular talking point of USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and the Renewable Fuel Association (RFA) that ethanol reduced gasoline prices by $ 0.89 / gal in 2010 and $ 1.09 / gal in 2011.

Fuel distributing companies - I'm talking about brand name gasoline and diesel - when approached by a potential supplier of ethanol can simply require provision of evidence of proper environmental permitting and of environmental management systems in place.

Green House Gases: Replacing 2.4 % of gasoline by ethanol gives a reduction of 0.024 * 0.13 = 0.00312 (0.3 percent) reduction in gasoline green house gases.

Ethanol is currently transported mainly by tanker truck or rail cars because it can not be shipped in existing gasoline pipelines.