Sentences with phrase «gasoline by ethanol»

Green House Gases: Replacing 2.4 % of gasoline by ethanol gives a reduction of 0.024 * 0.13 = 0.00312 (0.3 percent) reduction in gasoline green house gases.

Offsets Imports: Replacing 2.4 % of gasoline by ethanol would be the same as increasing the fleet mileage standard by 0.48 MPG (20 MPG current fleet * 0.024).

Not exact matches

An assessment paid for by DuPont said that the ethanol it will produce there could be more than 100 per cent better than gasoline in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

Its most devastating counter-argument is that the C.D. Howe report fails to appreciate «that ethanol is less energy efficient than gasoline by volume,» Corcoran says, which isn't exactly «a big marketing win» for Bob.

Ethanol from places like Corn Plus travels by barge or railroad to distribution terminals, then is combined with gasoline at the rack where tanker trucks load up.

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

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.

A Northwestern University study by an economist and a chemist reports that when fuel prices drove residents of São Paulo, Brazil, to mostly switch from ethanol to gasoline in their flexible - fuel vehicles, local ozone levels dropped 20 percent.

Gasoline prices in Brazil are controlled by the government, and the domestic sugar price — and therefore the domestic price of ethanol — is determined by the world sugar price.

If ethanol safely supports a 15:1 CR in a naturally - aspirated application where gasoline can only go up to 10:1 before detonation becomes a concern, one can expect the effective working pressure to improve by up to 50 % (of course, the engine's compression ratio will physically have to be altered to take advantage of ethanol).

I'm wondering does ethanol burn faster or slower than gasoline, and by how much?

The Corvette Z06 E85 Concept pace car is based on the production Z06 — already one of the fastest and most powerful cars on the market — and is powered by E85, which consists of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline.

A gallon of ethanol has a lower energy content than a gallon of gasoline (as measured by BTU content).

E85 today is primarily made with grain - based ethanol that reduces carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 29 percent compared with pure gasoline.

GM has been a big proponent of flex fuels, meaning E85 (85 % ethanol, 15 % gasoline) that gets worse mileage than regular gasoline but does win GM a EPA efficiency credit and is much beloved by America's corn farmers and others who like that the feedstock for E85 is domestic.

The gas mileage is disappointing but does fall within Hyundai's spec when using gasoline without ethanol which lowers the mileage by around 3.5 mpg.

The engine remains the same 2.0 - liter naturally aspirated four - cylinder gasoline unit that delivers 150 hp and 205 Nm (151 lb - ft) of torque when fueled by ethanol (145 hp and 198 Nm on gasoline).

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.

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 AcBy 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 Acby 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 wiki values imply densities of 0.72 to 0.74 kg / L for gasoline, 0.762 for Gasohol E10 (10 % ethanol by volume); for 0.73 kg / L and a composition of 84.117 to 85 wt % C (the former calculated for octane, the later given by an encyclopedia (Britannica Macropedia entry «Chemical Elements» p. 945, sorry don't know the year, I'm looking at a photocopy) for petroleum, g CO2 / gal from combustion should be 8517 to 8606.

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.

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...

While ethanol, for example derived from corn but distilled in a facility powered by coal was, in fact, on average worse, than gasoline, some of the envisioned cellulosic - based biofuels could be dramatically better on a g CO2 eq / MJ basis.

Biofuels Digest quotes Barbassa as saying that gasoline has now become «the alternative fuel»: In fact Petrobras predicts that by 2020 that the gasoline market for light vehicles will shrink by 17 %, with ethanol use increasing.

In a report released last month, the GAO underscored the evaporative problems posed by ethanol, saying that compensating for ethanol forces refiners to remove certain liquids from their gasoline: «Removing these components and reprocessing them or diverting them to other products increases the cost of making ethanol - blended gasoline.»

Mid-range gasoline - ethanol blends (greater than 10 percent and less than 85 percent ethanol) should only be used in vehicles approved for their use by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

fuel mixtures containing 85 percent or more by volume of methanol, denatured ethanol, and other alcohols with gasoline or other fuels

It could «reduce» the availability of non ethanol (E-O) gasoline by tying Refiners» hands on blending regs.

Meanwhile, a 2007 study by a Stanford University environmental engineer found that increasing ethanol levels in gasoline can lead to more smog.

But it misleads by saying in a graphic that ethanol produces «34 - 88 % lower carbon than gasoline today.»

Third, there can be — indeed, has been — a major impact in the U.S. motor fuels sector, where the market for biofuels (mainly ethanol) is negatively affected by low conventional gasoline prices.

An ad by the anti-ethanol group «Smarter Fuel Future» says: «Mandating corn for ethanol doubles greenhouse gas emissions compared to gasoline, over 30 years.»

Almost as bad are regulations requiring the use of corn ethanol, which clearly only benefit corn producers and processors at the expense of gasoline users and illustrates how government interference in private markets can be used by special interests to reallocate income to themselves.

Because the supply of ethanol, ramped up by the Troika, exceeds demand, ethanol today is cheaper than gasoline by volume.

Today, most gasoline contains 10 percent ethanol by volume.

This damage is unnecessary and can be avoided by freezing the ethanol content of gasoline at 10 % by volume.

Earlier this year a team of University of Minnesota researchers looked at the life - cycle air quality impacts of alternatives to conventional gasoline vehicles and found that powering vehicles with corn ethanol or with coal - based or grid electricity increases «monetized environmental health impacts by 80 % or more relative to using conventional gasoline.»

Widespread burning of ethanol as fuel may increase the number of respiratory - related deaths and hospitalizations relative to gasoline, according to a new study by Stanford University atmospheric scientist Mark Z. Jacobson.

Opponents make compelling case but can't derail or even slow this well - protected industry Guest opinion by Paul Driessen Like most people I've spoken with, I have no innate, inflexible antipathy to ethanol in gasoline.

If CAFE drops gasoline demand from 140 billion gallons per year to 100 billion gallons, and the RFS requires 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022, the current blend of E10 (gasoline with 10 percent ethanol) will need to be increased to E40 nationwide.

Robert Zubrin thinks the United States can break free from the grip of Middle East oil - producing countries by immediately mandating that all cars sold in this country be «flex - fuel vehicles,» capable of running on gasoline, ethanol or methanol.

CARD claims that from January 2000 to December 2011, «the growth in ethanol production reduced wholesale gasoline prices by $ 0.29 per gallon on average across all regions,» and that in 2011 ethanol lowered gasoline prices by a whopping $ 1.09 per gallon.

In a free market, refiners would have blended less ethanol and produced more gasoline than they did in the market rigged by the RFS and other pro-ethanol policies.

The shipping costs to transport the ethanol by rail to the Northwest will also slightly decrease the already marginal improvement in petrloleum and fossil energy use per mile travelled on ethanol relative to gasoline.

Producers generally sell directly to fueling stations, which explains why ethanol has taken root in the Midwest, center of U.S. corn production, or send it by rail to terminals to be blended with gasoline.

[68] The U.S. consumed 138.2 × 109 US gal (523 × 106 m3) of gasoline in 2008, blended with about 9.6 × 109 US gal (36 × 106 m3) of ethanol, representing a market share of almost 7 % of supply by volume.

According to a 2008 analysis by Iowa State University, the growth in U.S. ethanol fuel production caused retail gasoline prices to be 29 — 40 cents per gallon lower than would otherwise have been the case.

But «the day is not far distant when...» (gasoline is replaced by ethanol) hasn't happened in over 100 years, so he definitely missed on that one.

Replacing MTBE by ethanol requires only a percent of ethanol in gasoline.

By displacing gasoline with ethanol, we are displacing geo - political risk with yield risk, and historical corn yields have been about twice as volatile as oil imports.