Sentences with phrase «higher ethanol»

«Higher ethanol requirements could lead to a reduction in the domestic fuel supply, increased costs, and severe harm to the U.S. economy.

To meet some of the higher ethanol production goals would require more corn than the United States currently produces, if all of the envisioned ethanol was made from corn.

To meet its targets, the EPA anticipates increases in the use of higher ethanol blends that experience shows are unrealistic.

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.

Research has shown higher ethanol blends, such as E15, could damage vehicle engines and fuel pump systems, socking consumers with the repair bills.

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

Because ethanol has one - third less energy than gasoline and does not make up the difference in price, the higher the ethanol blend, the more money you spend on each mile driven.

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.

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

This is the reason the outdoor power equipment, boating, UTV, snowmobile, auto, and motorcycle industries, as well as the American Automobile Association (AAA) and the Coast Guard, oppose this higher ethanol fuel.

If you look at a flex - fuel car, it will have all fuel related parts made of materials designed to withstand the corrosion effects of the higher ethanol content.

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).

That means RFS mandates could push higher ethanol concentrations into gasoline than today's vehicles or refueling infrastructure were designed to accommodate.

The American Motorcyclist Association is well aware of the dangers of fuels with higher ethanol blends, like E15.

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.

Also, the higher the ethanol blend, the lower the fuel economy.

And a report last year found that the vast majority of cars on the road were not built to handle higher ethanol levels.

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.

Liquor, for instance, has a much higher ethanol content than beer or wine, especially low - alcohol wines.

There are higher ethanol yield crops that can be grown in areas unsuitable for corn.

Switchgrass and hybrid poplars would produce relatively high ethanol yields on marginal lands, but it likely will be another decade before cellulosic ethanol can compete with corn - based ethanol.

E85 is a blend of gasoline and denatured ethanol containing up to 85 percent ethanol and is the highest ethanol fuel blend available in the market.

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.

Not exact matches

Puzder named ethanol regulation, which has resulted in higher beef costs, a rising minimum wage and higher labor costs due to Obamacare as three obstacles that make doing business in the U.S. more difficult than in the past.

Even with the tariff, U.S. ethanol exports hit a record high in February, thanks largely to rising Brazilian demand as higher gasoline prices and low international sugar prices made ethanol more competitive at the pump.

So while social responsibility was reason enough for me to seek higher percentage blends of ethanol gas, what resonated even more with me is the fact that ethanol is an entrepreneur's industry.

But fuels high in ethanol are causing problems — marine engines don't like them very much since they attract water and corrode tanks and battery jumps.

Valero's investing heavily in ethanol to complement its high - quality oil refineries, while ConocoPhillips has been selling off assets and trimming its debt over the past year or two.

As an example, if oil is high, $ KORN will rise as ethanol becomes more desired as an alternative source of fuel.

China released a $ 3 billion list of goods it said it might charge with higher tariffs, including a 25 percent tariff on pork and aluminum scrap, as well as a 15 percent tariff on steel pipes, wine and ethanol.

Corn is increasingly being used to convert into ethanol in the U.S. and in high demand in China where it it used to feed into the meat industry, and it has yet to be seen how this year's significant loss in harvest will impact grain use across the globe.

«Although we produce ethanol, our primary focus remains on high - quality food ingredients for discriminating customers.»

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Tinctures are made by soaking chopped, puréed, or gently bruised roots, leaves, and herbs in a combination of high - proof alcohol (frequently ethanol at a manufacturer level) and water.

Does it help that the corn is much more likely to be destined to be made into ethanol than high fructose corn syrup?

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In another stroke of luck, New York dairy farmers have been well - positioned in recent years because they tend to grow much of their own feed corn, putting them at a competitive advantage over their larger California competitors: West Coast dairies are struggling with the high price of corn brought on by international demand, drought conditions and ethanol subsidies.

Ethanol and biodiesel can both be used in bio-jet fuel, but the technologies to convert plant - derived oil to jet fuel are at an advanced stage of development, yield high energy efficiency and are ready for large - scale deployment.

Fermentation in the presence of the carboxylate - type liquid zwitterion produced 1.4 g / L ethanol, while no ethanol was obtained with the ionic liquid due to its high toxicity.

Furthermore, these vehicles incorporate rudimentary conversions of gasoline engines and do not fully exploit ethanol's high octane.

Then, Dextre reached into the module, grabbed one of four toaster - size, custom - made, high - tech tools there, and proceeded to snip two safety wires, unscrew two filler caps on the outside of the module and pump a few liters of ethanol into a small holding tank.

But he points out that the ethanol process also generates a lot of carbon monoxide, which the high - power fuel cells that might someday propel cars can not tolerate.

For cellulosic to make its way onto the market, federal policy will need to do more to encourage distribution of higher blends of ethanol, the ethanol industry says.

It seems likely that the highly localised heating on the surface of nanoparticles somehow disrupts hydrogen bonding within the ethanol — water mixture, allowing greater separation of ethanol from water molecules at higher concentrations of ethanol.

However, the health of the entire population pays a high price: substitution of gasoline for ethanol leads to a 30 % increase in the atmospheric concentration of ultrafine particulate matter, which consists of particles with a diameter of less than 50 nanometers (nm).

«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.

At a biofuels energy symposium hosted by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies last week in Washington, D.C., professor Jerald Schnoor said corn ethanol production facilities require large quantities of high - purity water during the fermentation process.

Though the diesel product itself is not very dangerous to E. coli, several of its precursors, like fatty acids and ethanol, can harm the cell in high concentrations.

Scientists have experimented for decades with a class of catalysts known as zeolites that transform alcohols such as ethanol into higher - grade hydrocarbons.

By using a combination of crop growth, hydrological, carbon and nitrogen cycle models, researchers found that the estimated land suitable for bioenergy grasses — particularly Miscanthus, the most productive bioenergy crop — is limited, despite its relatively high biomass productivity and low water consumption per unit of ethanol.