Most car manufacturers now permit the use
of ethanol blends of 10 % or less in all gas - powered vehicles.
This wrong - headed policy, pushed by an aggressive farm lobby, gives a 51 - cent tax credit for each gallon of
ethanol blended into gasoline.
Extensive testing by the automotive and oil industries shows
higher ethanol blends may result in damaged engines and fuel systems for owners of the overwhelming majority of cars.
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Thus far the White House has proven reluctant to act on the need to curb government mandated
ethanol blending requirements for gasoline, despite the damage the program does to consumers and the broader U.S. energy industry.
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.
Ethanol contains 33 percent less energy per gallon than gasoline, so engines fueled with higher
ethanol blended gas will attain fewer miles per gallon than those running on conventional gasoline (E10).
Study finds
ethanol blending appears to reduce significantly genotoxic emissions from gasoline direct injection vehicles
Rainforest Rescue's recent and still active U.S. agrofuel alert with Ecological Internet has already led to partial success, as the decision on whether to increase the corn
ethanol blend from 10 % to 15 % has been delayed for a year.
In addition to potentially limiting consumer choice by jeopardizing availability of
lower ethanol blends, the RFS could lead to increased fuel costs.
The common
ethanol blend E10, otherwise known as gasohol, is made up of 10 % ethanol and 90 % gasoline sold throughout the US.
It will initially produce methanol and later ethanol — enough each year to fill the tanks of 400,000 cars using a five per
cent ethanol blend.
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.
I don't know if this has happened in your case, but it is a known problem with the
US ethanol blend requirements.
A recent report from the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratories states that high - octane
mid-level ethanol blends deliver optimal performance, often at a price below regular unleaded.
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.
E85 can only be used in flex fuel vehicles (FFVs) which are specifically designed to run on this fuel or any gasoline or
ethanol blend ranging from E0 to E85.
E85 can also provide important reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as compared to petroleum - derived gasoline or lower
volume ethanol blends.
«The Renewable Fuels Standard must be revised to prevent the damage that
ethanol blends above the 10 % level will cause to engines of all types.
... NMMA strongly opposed — and continues to oppose — the granting of a «partial» or «conditional» waiver for E15 or any
other ethanol blend level over ten percent ethanol («E10») because it will substantially increase public confusion and lead to persistent misfueling and consequent engine performance failures, emissions control failures, and consumer safety concerns.»
Fuel stresses have been reported as Germans have been refusing to buy 10 %
ethanol blends instead opting for standard fuel (which contains up to 5 % ethanol).
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and its mandates for increasing use of ethanol continue to be debated publicly — in Congress, where lawmakers could vote to repeal the dysfunctional program and in places like Chicago, where service stations could be forced to carry higher -
ethanol blend E15 fuel.
The Governors of Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, and North Carolina have petitioned EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to waive the
mandatory ethanol blending requirements established by the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
Finally, the red and bluelines are the amount of ethanol that would be missing from the market
if ethanol blending was capped at 400,000 bbl / d.
EPA's final rule still relies on unrealistic increases in the sales of higher
ethanol blends despite the fact that most cars can not use them.
Though Valero has opposed
Federal ethanol blending mandates in the past, now that it appears that government mandates are here to stay for the foreseeable future, and it can snap up some of Verasun's assets at sale prices, the purchase makes sense for the San Antonio - based firm.
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As a consequence,
ethanol blended into gasoline at a ratio of 10 % causes about a 3 - 4 % loss in miles per gallon...
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.
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...
«EPA's own «engineering judgment,» as well as all available data (supported by these two new studies), strongly suggests that all of the 12.8 million registered boats on the water today (with the exception of approximately 260,000 diesel - powered boats and the roughly 430,000 registered non-motorized craft) may be negatively impacted by any gasoline with more than a 10
percent ethanol blend.»
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.
No matter how high corn prices get, or how serious the associated economic harm, the EPA will have ready - made excuses not to waive the corn -
ethanol blending requirements.
Surveys show that the American people agree, with nearly threequarters of voters concerned about the potential harms created by the increasing prevalence
of ethanol blends to over 10 percent of the fuel mix.