Sentences with phrase «ethanol blend fuels»

With EPA last week proposing ethanol - use requirements for 2014, 2015 and 2016 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the ethanol industry no doubt will keep lobbying to foist increasing amounts of higher - ethanol blend fuels like E15 and E85 on the motoring public.

(Not to mention to equipment such as small engines and marine motors which are damaged by higher ethanol blend fuels.)

Market - based principles should guide policymakers away from top - down, government - mandated ventures such as the flawed Renewable Fuel Standard — which could force higher ethanol blend fuels into the national supply, potentially damaging vehicle engines and saddling consumers with repair costs.

Stabil is not recommended in ethanol blended fuels as it causes a chemical reaction corroding brass in carburetors and speeds up the process at which ethanol mix gas breaks down fuel lines in vehicles made 2006 or older.

High ethanol blended fuels, like E85, are not viable solutions for reaching renewable fuel consumption targets of the RFS, even if cellulosic standards are waived.

This means you must fill your gas tank more frequently when using higher ethanol blended fuel.»

Not exact matches

Japan's new ethanol rules started with a public consultation last year to review fuel blending standards.

Then I noticed the Sunoco fuel used by NASCAR teams is an E-15 blend... and long story short, in my effort to become more socially responsible, I have become an ethanol proponent.

We're hoping to make E-15 the standard, and in the meantime we're working with innovative retailers to offer a new choice of fuel that has a 15 % blend of ethanol.»

A gasoline provider could blend ethanol into their fuel to make it less carbon - intensive, for instance — something Canadian fuel providers already do.

«For the first time, the U.S. ethanol industry will have the opportunity to compete for a portion of Japan's fuel blending market,» Emily Skor, head of Washington - based ethanol group Growth Energy, said in a statement.

The Brazilian car manufacturing industry developed flexible - fuel vehicles that can run on any proportion of gasoline (E20 - E25 blend) and hydrous ethanol (E100).

The New Plant Fuel «Green diesel,» as it's being called, isn't the first effort to use plants to power cars; your gas tank probably has a blend of gas and plant - derived ethanol inside it right now.

As if all that wasn't bad enough, ethanol blends hurt your car's fuel economy.

Pruitt said he would support the U.S. renewable fuels standard, which requires biofuels like ethanol to be blended in gasoline, but said the program needed some tweaks.

Blending ethanol brewed from corn into gasoline stocks is not bringing down fuel prices, an M.I.T. study finds

Congress in 2007 required that refiners blend 36 billion gallons of ethanol into fuel supply by 2022.

But experts at a major scientific meeting today described how ethanol blends used as fuel in the race cars of the Indianapolis 500 actually make those emissions cleaner than cars on the street.

«The blend - stock can be mixed into gasoline at higher concentrations than ethanol's current limit of 10 percent; plus it can be added to diesel and jet fuel.

«Our method of direct conversion of ethanol offers a pathway to produce suitable hydrocarbon blend - stock that may be blended at a refinery to yield fuels such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel or commodity chemicals,» Narula said.

Vertimass LLC, a California - based start - up company, has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory technology that directly converts ethanol into a hydrocarbon blend - stock for use in transportation fuels.

In a few areas, primarily the Midwest, a blend that is 85 percent ethanol (E85) is also sold for use in vehicles that have so - called flex - fuel engines.

The price of pure ethanol at the pump is so high that in most states it is cheaper to fill up flexible - fuel cars with petrol blends that contain about 20 % ethanol.

The U.S. is about to hit the «blending wall,» the saturation point for ethanol use, because it does not have the infrastructure to meet the federal mandate for renewable - fuels use with ethanol.

E85 vehicles are also called Flexible Fuel Vehicles (FFV) due to their ability to operate on a blend of85 percent ethanol fuel and 15 percent unleaded gasoFuel Vehicles (FFV) due to their ability to operate on a blend of85 percent ethanol fuel and 15 percent unleaded gasofuel and 15 percent unleaded gasoline

Marvel Ultimate should be added to fuel or used in the crankcase in oil; specially formulated even for use in synthetic oil and with most advanced fuels including top tier, ethanol blends, and biodiesels.

Vehicle that operates on any blend of fuel ethanol and unleaded gasoline, containing up to 85 percent ethanol fuel.

GM's 3.9 - liter overhead - valve V6 provides an acceptable balance between power and fuel economy, while its FlexFuel component allows the engine use E85, a blend of gasoline and ethanol.

The twin Compuware Corvette C6.R race cars have been outfitted with new fuel cells that are compatible with the ethanol / gasoline blend and their LS7.R small - block V - 8 racing engines have been recalibrated for the high - octane renewable alternative fuel.

Furthermore, the Brazilian subsidiary began producing flex - fuel versions for the Civic and the Fit models, capable of running on any blend of gasoline (E20 to E25 blend in Brazil) and ethanol up to E100.

GM's revised 3.9 - liter overhead - valve V6 provides an acceptable balance between power and fuel economy, while its FlexFuel component allows the engine use E85, a blend of gasoline and ethanol.

This Flex Fuel Vehicle is optomized to run on E85, a blend of 85 % ethanol fuel with 15 % gasolinFuel Vehicle is optomized to run on E85, a blend of 85 % ethanol fuel with 15 % gasolinfuel with 15 % gasoline...

E85 is 85 % ethanol and 15 % gasoline fuel blend that carries an octane rating of 105 PO...

Town & Country can use regular - grade gasoline and / or E85 ethanol - blended fuel.

The 3.6 - liter V6 is the only ATS engine that can use ethanol - blended E85 fuel as well.

Grand Caravan is capable of using regular - grade gasoline and / or E85 ethanol - blended fuel.

The 5300 V8 is now capable of running gasoline / ethanol fuel blends.

The engine is also flex - fuel capable, meaning it can run on a gasoline / ethanol blend.

All three of the engines run on regular unleaded, and the V6 and 5.3 - liter V8 are flex - fuel compliant, meaning they can use the E85 ethanol blend.

FlexFuel can be advantageous in parts of the country where higher - percentage ethanol fuel blends are offered, as GM FlexFuel engines have been engineered to produce more horsepower while running high - octane blends.

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.

Determined to keep the F - 150 America's best - selling pickup, Ford continues to offer a dizzying array of configurations 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.

Jim, there's a very slight chance that you may already have a flex - fuel (E85) capable vehicle that can run on either gasoline or any ethanol blend up to 85 %.

A research team from Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) and the University of Applied Sciences Bern, Laboratory for Exhaust Emission Control, reports that ethanol blending appeared to reduce genotoxic emissions from a flex - fuel Euro - 5 gasoline direct injection (GDI) vehicle (a Volvo V60 with a 1.6 L...

All trim levels of the Focus will be powered by a 2.0 - liter four - cylinder engine that can run on either a gasoline or E85 ethanol - blended fuel.

And «flex fuel vehicles,» which run on a special ethanol blend, enjoy a $ 1,000 rebate.

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).

Just as the government requires ethanol to be blended into gasoline, they also require or promote the blending of renewable biomass components into diesel fuels.

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.

The EPA allows small oil refineries to apply for hardship exemptions from the RFS ethanol blending requirements, with «small» meaning capacity 10,000 tons of biomass per day, producing at least 20,000 barrels of fuel per day.