Sentences with phrase «more ethanol in gasoline»

At issue is whether to suspend a five - year - old federal mandate requiring more ethanol in gasoline each year, a policy that has diverted almost half of the domestic corn supply from animal feedlots to ethanol refineries, driven up corn prices and plantings and created a desperate competition for corn as drought grips the nation's farm belt.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.

As attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prices.

Though similar in structure to ethanol, these fuels behave much more like gasoline.

It's said that ethanol is capable of more power than gasoline in an engine exclusively designed for it.

All that and more, plus a preview of Autoline This Week about whether using ethanol in gasoline hurts our food supply.

A team at the University of Birmingham reports that a blend of 33 % v / v of butanol in EN228 commercial gasoline containing 5 % of ethanol (B33) reduces GDI (gasoline direct injection) engine - out carbonaceous emissions, while maintaining similar levels of NOx emissions when compared to standard gasoline combustion at low and medium... Read more →

Renewable - fuel standard — Congress laid the foundation for this strange - bedfellow debate in 2013, and next year could bring more substantive action, depending on whether gasoline prices go up and how that affects ethanol prices.

The gasoline also did contain some hydrogen that burned to form water, so the 3:1 ratio Jeff references probably was for gasoline (not containing ethanol) but adjusted for the mass content of the hydrogen in the gasoline and is likely more accurate than the 3.67 ratio of carbon to carbon dioxide masses.

In addition to the transportation and volatility issues, ethanol will add yet more blends of gasoline to the retail market.

• 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.

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

From 2007 to 2013, corn ethanol interests spent $ 158 million lobbying for more mandates and subsidies — and $ 6 million in campaign contributions — for a fuel that reduces mileage, damages engines, requires enormous amounts of land, water and fertilizer, and from stalk to tailpipe emits more carbon dioxide than gasoline.

Just growing corn and preserving it in a salt mine forever whilst making gasoline from coal or natural gas will even capture far more carbon than using it for ethanol does.

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.

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.

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 policieIn 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 policiein the market rigged by the RFS and other pro-ethanol policies.

Adding corn Ethanol to gasoline reduces gas mileage, increases the price of food and transportation, is unprofitable without government subsidies, creates more greenhouse gases in its manufacture than unadulterated gasoline, and can damage older engines.

As to other Alternate Fuels... even in Brasil, the Sugar Ethanol industry only exists because of government subsidy... even then, ethanol is more expensive than gasoline at the gas sEthanol industry only exists because of government subsidy... even then, ethanol is more expensive than gasoline at the gas sethanol is more expensive than gasoline at the gas station.

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.

When we assume the ethanol production process is fully renewable, it would take all the corn in the country to displace about 3.5 percent of our gasoline consumption — only slightly more than we could displace by making sure drivers» tires are inflated properly.

He pointed to findings that corn ethanol, which plays the largest role in meeting RFS mandates, emits more greenhouse gases than gasoline, and he said it is «confusing» for the Obama administration to push corn ethanol while it seeks to lower global greenhouse gas emissions at the Paris climate summit.

I am working on another article that has more detail from published article about the increase in ozone pollution from ethanol mixed gasoline.

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.»

converting all gasoline using vehicles to 100 % corn - based ethanol would require almost 7x the current acreage in corn, and 30 % more than the current total cropland of the US.»

Brian Dodge, just for comparison and context, converting all gasoline using vehicles to 100 % corn - based ethanol would require almost 7x the current acreage in corn, and 30 % more than the current total cropland of the US.