Sentences with phrase «as ethanol in our gasoline»

Around 40 percent of the corn grown in the United States is used as ethanol in our gasoline.

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Even with the tariff, U.S. ethanol exports hit a record high in February, thanks largely to rising Brazilian demand as higher gasoline prices and low international sugar prices made ethanol more competitive at the pump.

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

WASHINGTON, DC — Today the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), as part of a coalition of food, farm and oil industry groups, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking that it reverse the DC Circuit Court's August 2012 decision to dismiss its challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to allow gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol («E15») to be sold for cars manufactured in the 2007 model year or later.

Right now ethanol is used mostly as a fuel additive; about one - third of the gasoline sold in the United States contains a shot of ethanol (about 10 percent, typically) to reduce automobile emissions.

Several US states, such as California, have laws requiring a 20 % -30 % ethanol blend in gasoline, which also helps reduce emissions of ultrafine particulate matter.

As attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food priceAs attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food priceas well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food priceas the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prices.

Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).

For the purposes of this question, the impact of gasoline vs ethanol will be felt as a change in effective working pressure.

All auto gasoline in the US contains a 10 % ethanol mix as of 2007.

As part of the series» «green racing» initiative, the most successful team in ALMS history is using a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline in the demanding arena of endurance road racing.

«When we raced at Infineon Raceway in 2004, California regulations required ethanol as an additive, so all of the race cars» fuel lines and seals were already compatible with gasoline / ethanol fuel.

Fittipaldi, who has spent 30 years in his native Brazil as a refiner of ethanol, is an ardent champion of ethanol as a viable alternative to gasoline.

Determined to keep the F - 150 America's best selling pickup, Ford continues to offer a dizzying array of configurations (a total of 60 in all) as well as a new 5.4 - liter V8 Flex Fuel engine that can run on E85, a blend of 85 - percent ethanol and 15 - percent gasoline.

Flex Fuel (also known as E85) is a gasoline - ethanol blend containing anywhere from 51 to 83 % ethanol, and can only be used in Flexible Fuel Vehicles (FFVs).

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 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.

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 Brazil ethanol has become economically competitive with gasoline, and the country's biofuels program could serve as a world model for producing sustainable energy, officials say.

The energy return on sugarcane ethanol as it has been calculated does appear to be in the 8/1 range, which would make it better than gasoline.

National Research Council: [A] ccording to EPA's own estimates, corn - grain ethanol produced in 2011, which is almost exclusively made in biorefineries using natural gas as a heat source, is a higher emitter of GHG than gasoline.

E85 can also provide important reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as compared to petroleum - derived gasoline or lower volume ethanol blends.

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.

And — as mentioned in the anti-ethanol ad — even former Vice President Al Gore has called the federal requirement for adding corn - based ethanol to gasoline «a mistake.»

Because so little energy is required to cultivate crops such as switchgrass for cellulosic ethanol production, and because electricity can be co-produced using the residues of such cellulosic fuel production, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for celluslosic ethanol when compared to gasoline are greater than 100 per cent.

First, we're Big Ethanol's biggest customers, buying billions of gallons a year, as a useful additive in E10 gasoline.

As gasoline prices in the United States quickly climbed to $ 3 a gallon, the conversion of a $ 2 bushel of corn, which can be distilled into 2.8 gallons of ethanol, became highly profitable.

The Wall Street Journal has reported the results of two independent studies that suggest the widespread use of ethanol from corn could result in nearly twice the greenhouse gas emissions as the gasoline it would replace because of expected land - use changes, researchers concluded Thursday. The study challenges the rush to biofuels as a response to global warming.

Ethanol as fuel is blended with gasoline in concentrations ranging from 5 % to 10 %.

As to other Alternate Fuels... even in Brasil, the Sugar Ethanol industry only exists because of government subsidy... even then, ethanol is more expensive than gasoline at the gas sEthanol industry only exists because of government subsidy... even then, ethanol is more expensive than gasoline at the gas sethanol is more expensive than gasoline at the gas station.

Burning renewable fuels, such as ethanol, can reduce air pollutant emissions, but critics argue that gasoline blended with too much ethanol can interfere with emissions control systems in some automobiles and actually lead to higher emissions.

At issue is whether to suspend a five - year - old federal mandate requiring more ethanol in gasoline each year, a policy that has diverted almost half of the domestic corn supply from animal feedlots to ethanol refineries, driven up corn prices and plantings and created a desperate competition for corn as drought grips the nation's farm belt.

In 2015 hearing testimony, the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America / National Association of Convenience Stores told Congress: «To date, very few retailers selling mid-to high - level ethanol - gasoline blends such as E15 or E85 have seen substantial sales of these pGasoline Marketers of America / National Association of Convenience Stores told Congress: «To date, very few retailers selling mid-to high - level ethanol - gasoline blends such as E15 or E85 have seen substantial sales of these pgasoline blends such as E15 or E85 have seen substantial sales of these products.

Ethanol is a key ingredient in today's gasoline — but the promise of ethanol as an oil and climate solution depends on how it's made and what it's madEthanol is a key ingredient in today's gasoline — but the promise of ethanol as an oil and climate solution depends on how it's made and what it's madethanol as an oil and climate solution depends on how it's made and what it's made from.

In fact, only a very small portion of the corn ethanol that is produced is used to make E85 — the remainder is used as a fuel additive, in concentrations up to 10 % of the gasolinIn fact, only a very small portion of the corn ethanol that is produced is used to make E85 — the remainder is used as a fuel additive, in concentrations up to 10 % of the gasolinin concentrations up to 10 % of the gasoline.

The level of gasoline consumption limits the amount of ethanol that may be used in the gasoline pool at any fixed blending level, such as the 10 % ethanol blend (E10) that is predominant in the current U.S. gasoline supply.

But instead of leaving it there, you harvest the corn and convert it into ethanol, an energy intensive process, and use the remaining carbon in the ethanol as a replacement for gasoline carbon.