Sentences with phrase «ethanol blended into»

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.

This wrong - headed policy, pushed by an aggressive farm lobby, gives a 51 - cent tax credit for each gallon of ethanol blended into gasoline.

Not exact matches

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

An even bigger blow has been the U.S. decision to subsidize conversion of maize into ethanol to blend with gasoline.

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.

As a result, the government of that country has decided to mandate blending 1 percent of ethanol into gasoline for the first time.

The technology developed by ORNL's Chaitanya Narula, Brian Davison and Associate Laboratory Director Martin Keller uses an inexpensive zeolite catalyst to transform ethanol into hydrocarbon blend - stock.

«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.

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.

This is an unfortunate scenario where ethanol in your gasoline blend absorbs too much water from the atmosphere and separates into two layers.

Currently, ethanol is blended into a gasoline blendstock formulated with lower octane rating... Read more →

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.

The RFS, which requires increasingly large amounts of biofuels — mostly corn - based ethanol — to be blended into gasoline each year, will come to the forefront again when EPA finalizes 2014 biofuels levels by June...

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.

These predictions established the volumes that refiners are required to use to blend into our gasoline — even though there is no cellulosic ethanol available, period!

The RFS requires refiners to blend enormous amounts of biofuel, mostly corn - based ethanol, into gasoline.

Last week the EPA dismissed a petition by the American Petroleum Institute seeking relief from the cellulosic ethanol mandate, which requires that oil refiners blend 8.65 million gallons of ethanol into the fuel supply by the end of 2012:

• Since 2007, the RFS, which requires fuel retailers to blend corn ethanol into the gasoline they sell, has saddled American motorists with more than $ 10 billion per year in extra fuel costs above what they would have paid if they had purchased gasoline alone.

Canada currently maintains a 5 % domestic ethanol mandate on use while the U.S. is working towards a target of 136 billion liters of biofuels blended into transportation fuels by 2022.

Ethanol is now blended into almost all gasoline sold here and accounts for roughly 10 % of total U.S. motor fuel.

Many people are familiar with the biofuel ethanol, which is produced from corn and is blended with the gasoline we pump into our tanks.

The bill would eliminate the current mandate to blend 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol into fuel by 2022 and ban ethanol fuel content over ten percent.

As biofuel mandates increase, the ethanol volume required for blending into gasoline will exceed 10 percent — known as the «E10 Blend Wall.»

If the ethanol mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) required more, then you're running into the ethanol «blend wall» — that is, to satisfy the RFS, refiners would have to blend fuel with higher ethanol content than millions of vehicles are designed to use.

NASCAR racing team owner Richard Childress has an op - ed in the Charlotte Observer this week in which he renders a full - throttle endorsement of E15 gasoline and the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the federal program that requires more and more ethanol be blended into the nation's fuel supply.

Bloomberg Businessweek explains more clearly than EPA does why the agency had to back - peddle so furiously: «The Environmental Protection Agency proposed requiring less cellulosic ethanol to be blended into gasoline next year than sought under U.S. law because production of the alternative fuel hasn't reached commercial scale.»

Requires the Administrator, upon notification from a state Governor that the statutory Reid vapor pressure limitation (RVPL) will increase emissions that contribute to air pollution in the state, to apply a substitute RVPL to fuel blends containing gasoline and 10 % denatured anhydrous ethanol that are introduced into commerce during the high ozone season.

The proposed action would not affect corn or other ethanol production and blending requirements, despite growing problems with incorporating more ethanol into gasoline.

The 2005 energy bill and a 2007 revamp mandated increasing volumes of cellulosic ethanol be blended into the nation's gasoline and diesel supplies each year through 2022.

The standard mandates that oil refiners blend 13.2 billion gallons of corn - based ethanol into gasoline this year.

The reason is ethanol, which the federal government insists be blended into every gallon of motor fuel refined and sold in the United States.

They want Washington to force refiners like ExxonMobil to blend 15 percent ethanol — or E15 — into the motor - fuel supply.

Because, as I wrote in 2012, under the current law, refiners (and, indirectly, consumers) have to pay a fee for failing to blend cellulosic ethanol into existing fuel supplies.

Almost all of these projects differ from the ethanol being blended into the US gasoline supply in that they are made from inedible feedstocks, which sidesteps one of the critiques often leveled at biofuels: that they compete in with crops raised for people or livestock, driving up food prices.

Rather, the agency set ethanol requirements higher and higher with no apparent regard for falling U.S. gasoline consumption, allowing the RFS to drive the country headlong toward the «ethanol blend wall» — and potential harms from forcing more ethanol into the fuel supply than it can safely absorb.

Refiners consequently do not have the incentive to produce the annually increasing, full amount of ethanol required to be blended into gas under the law each year.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering scaling back legal requirements on the use of ethanol next year amid complaints from refiners that statutory mandates would exceed their ability to blend it into fuels without putting engines at risk.

... Consequently, refiners are up against a «blend wall» as the mandate forces them to purchase more ethanol than they can safely put into gasoline.»

Reflecting on the signing of Act No. 382 into law, Brian J. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, Inc. said, «I am pleased that the legislature and governor of the great State of Louisiana have chosen to lead the nation in moving ethanol beyond being just a blending component in gasoline to a fuel that is more economical, cleaner, renewable, and more efficient than unleaded gasoline.

That's what we draw from EPA's requirements for levels of corn ethanol and other renewable fuels that must be blended into the U.S. fuel supply.

Under the current law, refiners (and, indirectly, consumers) have to pay a fee for failing to blend cellulosic ethanol into existing fuel supplies.

API Downstream Group Director Bob Greco told reporters EPA is right to use its waiver authority to set the requirements below the original congressional mandate, calling it an acknowledgment of the «market limitations of the ethanol blend wall» — the amount of ethanol that can be safely blended into the fuel supply as E10 gasoline that's standard across the country.

Arguing that «there is no doubt it should be repealed,» the Washington Post editorial board explains: «Blending more and more ethanol into gasoline will require spending money on infrastructure that is not yet in place and selling more fuel that older and more specialized engines can not take.»

To prevent overheating (a problem in earlier designs), the wet waste is converted into a form of ethanol, treated with enzymes to form hydrous ethanol, and then blended with the gas.