Sentences with phrase «drive on ethanol»

I drive on ethanol car in order to stimulate technology development.

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They contain more energy per volume; a car driving on a gallon of ethanol will go only 67 percent as far as a car on a gallon of gasoline; on butanol, it can go 80 percent as far.

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).

THIS TAHOE IS FULLY EQUIPPED: AUDIO SYSTEM, AM / FM STEREO with MP3 compatible CD player, seek - and - scan, digital clock, auto - tone control, Radio Data System (RDS), speed - compensated volume and TheftLock (STD), TRANSMISSION, 4 - SPEED AUTOMATIC, ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED with overdrive and tow / haul mode (STD), ENGINE, VORTEC 5.3 L V8 SFI FLEX - FUEL WITH ACTIVE FUEL MANAGEMENT, capable of running on unleaded or up to 85 % ethanol (320 hp [238.6 kW] @ 5200 rpm, 340 lb - ft of torque [459.0 N - m] @ 4200 rpm), iron block (STD) DRIVE THIS TAHOE WITH CONFIDENCE: 5 Star Driver Front Crash Rating.

It's «pure drive» written in the flex fuel symbol, so if you get ethanol, get ready for your check engine light to come on and have very sluggish performance.

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.

We have noted previously that demand for ethanol feedstocks has driven up the price of beer in Germany, tortillas in Mexico and pasta in Italy; Yesterday the Italians demonstrated that they have had enought of high prices and went on strike.Consumer

Among their suggestions were the following: expand conservation tillage to 100 percent of cropland, stop all deforestation, drive two billion cars on ethanol, increase wind power 80-fold to make hydrogen for cars, replace 1,400 large coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones, and cut electricity use in buildings by 25 percent.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

Because ethanol has one - third less energy than gasoline and does not make up the difference in price, the higher the ethanol blend, the more money you spend on each mile driven.

It's already causing hunger and even starvation in poorer countries (the ethanol program driving up grain prices) and deaths from freezing in Europe when people can't afford $ 100 / MMBtu ($ 10 / therm) natural gas and can't burn coal during some of the coldest winters on record.

On longer drives, it would use a fuel mix of 80 % ethanol — alcohol, in the U.S. made mainly from corn — and 20 % gas.

It is cheaper to drive one mile on gasoline or diesel than on ethanol or biodiesel fuel.

Automakers were given fuel economy credits for selling cars capable of running on fuel that is 85 percent ethanol (known as E85), under the theory that this would help drive E85 to market and we would use less oil.

Clinton also criticized the heavy U.S. reliance on a food crop, corn, to produce ethanol for fuel, which helped drive up grain prices worldwide.

These vehicles have been sold for more than a decade — more than 15 million are driven today — but up to now have not run on ethanol very often.

High tariffs on imported ethanol, meanwhile, artificially drive up the price of domestic ethanol, angering fiscal conservatives.

Some of the earliest forms of life on Earth — anaerobic bacteria — used fermentation to produce ethanol and in the process extracted energy to drive their metabolic functions.