Sentences with phrase «forcing more ethanol»

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.

Not exact matches

According to analyses that have been published in Science and carried out by the California Air Resources Board, corn - based ethanol is actually worse than gasoline, mainly because growing more corn for ethanol forces farmers to clear additional grasslands and forests to grow food crops.

According to the Energy Information Administration, the energy content of ethanol is about 33 % less than pure gasoline, and E85 contains 51 - 83 % ethanol, lowering gas mileage and forcing consumers to fill up more frequently.

Plan 4 is the sneaky plan to increase the ethanol content of gasoline to the point where it will destroy many old cars and force people into buying new cars that the EPA considers green, such as the Chevy Volt, Toyota Prius, Nissan Leaf, or at the very least, more fuel - efficient gasoline powered cars that pollute less and will run on E15.

Unfortunately, the bill is a distraction from fundamental problems with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which is forcing more and more ethanol into the nation's fuel supply.

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

The RFS is forcing the use of more ethanol than the overall fuel supply can safely absorb — and in the process saddling refiners with using a fuel (cellulosic biofuel) that barely exists commercially.