Sentences with phrase «motor fuel ethanol»

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While ethanol currently makes up less than 4 percent of the motor fuel used nationally, the corn used in ethanol production constitutes 14 percent of the domestic crop.

Data collection was performed from January to May 2011, and the analyses took place before, during and after a sharp fluctuation in ethanol prices — owing to macroeconomic factors such as the international price of sugar (Brazilian ethanol is made from sugarcane)-- leading consumers to switch motor fuels in São Paulo City.

That's because fermenting corn into ethanol delivers less liquid fuel energy for internal combustion engines than does burning the kernels to generate power for electric motors.

The ethanol content in motor fuel makes gasoline degrade over several months.

The motor can be run on E85 Flex Fuel and produces slightly better power numbers when using ethanol.

Now put a motor inboard for each wheel, 12 kWh of batteries, a PEM fuel cell with ethanol reformer and you have a good car.

Brazilians meet much of their motor fuel needs with ethanol from sugarcane; on a smaller scale also in India.

But the ethanol boosters are ignoring some unpleasant facts: Ethanol won't significantly reduce our oil imports; adding more ethanol to our gas tanks adds further complexity to our motor - fuel supply chain, which will lead to further price hikes at the pump; and, most important (and most astonishing), it may take more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than it actually coethanol boosters are ignoring some unpleasant facts: Ethanol won't significantly reduce our oil imports; adding more ethanol to our gas tanks adds further complexity to our motor - fuel supply chain, which will lead to further price hikes at the pump; and, most important (and most astonishing), it may take more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than it actually coEthanol won't significantly reduce our oil imports; adding more ethanol to our gas tanks adds further complexity to our motor - fuel supply chain, which will lead to further price hikes at the pump; and, most important (and most astonishing), it may take more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than it actually coethanol to our gas tanks adds further complexity to our motor - fuel supply chain, which will lead to further price hikes at the pump; and, most important (and most astonishing), it may take more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than it actually coethanol than it actually contains.

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.

Ethanol is now blended into almost all gasoline sold here and accounts for roughly 10 % of total U.S. motor fuel.

Flex - fuel engines, which mix gasoline and ethanol, were advertised as the motors of the future.

The American Automobile Association's Daily Fuel Gauge Report makes this crystal clear by publishing the mileage - adjusted price of E-85 (motor fuel blended with 85 % ethanFuel Gauge Report makes this crystal clear by publishing the mileage - adjusted price of E-85 (motor fuel blended with 85 % ethanfuel blended with 85 % ethanol).

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

This means that next year, somewhere between 0.004 % and 0.015 % of our motor fuel will come from cellulosic ethanol.

There's just one problem: Despite Washington's mandates — which fall on refiners and producers of motor fuels like ExxonMobil — cellulosic ethanol doesn't actually exist in any meaningful volumes.

The gasoline sold at the pump today is E-10 — motor fuel blended with 10 % ethanol.

If there were no ethanol, the motor fuel supply would be 10 % smaller, and gas prices would be $ 1.09 per gallon higher (p. 6).

The reason is ethanol, which the federal government insists be blended into every gallon of motor fuel refined and sold in the United States.

They want Washington to force refiners like ExxonMobil to blend 15 percent ethanol — or E15 — into the motor - fuel supply.

During the period under evaluation by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, America's Soviet - style production quota for ethanol, a motor fuel distilled from corn, increased almost 4 billion gallons, or 104 billion pounds of maize.

By playing up jingoistic fears of «energy dependence,» King Corn has convinced the Congress that ethanol, a motor fuel distilled from corn, is a national security imperative, despite the fact that it increases gas prices, it's awful for the environment, it contributes to asthma, and it makes food costlier.

In the USA today, ethanol is mandated to up to 10 % of gasoline motor fuel; 13 billion gallons / year ethanol are replacing 10 billon gallons / year octane equivalent gasoline (out of a total consumption of around 140 billion gallons / year).

Refineries and blending facilities combine various gasoline blending components and fuel ethanol to produce the finished motor gasoline that is sold for use.

Ethanol now constitutes roughly 10 % of the motor fuel used by U.S. passenger vehicles.

As noted previously on this site (here and here), Vilsack and the RFA tout a study by Iowa State University's Center for Agricultural Research and Development (CARD), which concluded that if ethanol production had remained at year 2000 levels, the U.S. motor fuel supply would have been billions of gallons smaller and, thus, significantly pricier in 2010 and 2011.

The CARD researchers, Xiaodong Du and Dermot Hayes, attempt to determine the consumer benefit of ethanol by inferring what motor fuel prices would have been over the past decade had there been no increase in ethanol production.

General Motors will help lead a joint demonstration project along with the state of California, Chevron Technology Ventures, and Pacific Ethanol to learn more about consumer awareness and acceptance of E85 as a motor vehicle fuel by demonstrating its use in GM's flexible - fuel vehicles.

With EPA last week proposing ethanol - use requirements for 2014, 2015 and 2016 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the ethanol industry no doubt will keep lobbying to foist increasing amounts of higher - ethanol blend fuels like E15 and E85 on the motoring public.