Sentences with phrase «of ethanol in gasoline»

On the other hand, 75 percent expressed concern about government requirements that would increase the amount of ethanol in gasoline, while 72 percent oppose higher taxes that could decrease investment in energy production and reduce energy development.

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

Key findings from the survey of 1,000 registered voters include 74 percent agreeing that federal regulations could contribute to increased costs for gasoline to consumers and 68 percent who're concerned about government regulations that would increase the amount of ethanol in gasoline.

«We're at the point where refiners are being pressured to put unsafe levels of ethanol in gasoline, which could damage vehicles, harm consumers and wreak havoc on our economy.»

They dropped their own blend of ethanol in gasoline from 25 % to 20 %.

A federal appeals court rejected challenges to prevent the increase of ethanol in gasoline.

Not exact matches

(Most gasoline contains 10 % ethanol, but regulators have approached E-15 (15 % ethanol) for use in vehicles manufactured from 2001 on, and all new car warranties approve the use of E-15.)

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

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.

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

WASHINGTON, DC — Today the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), as part of a coalition of food, farm and oil industry groups, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking that it reverse the DC Circuit Court's August 2012 decision to dismiss its challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to allow gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol («E15») to be sold for cars manufactured in the 2007 model year or later.

Right now ethanol is used mostly as a fuel additive; about one - third of the gasoline sold in the United States contains a shot of ethanol (about 10 percent, typically) to reduce automobile emissions.

Brazil, on the other hand, has managed to provide 40 percent of its transportation fuel from sugarcane - derived ethanol and helped develop the flex - fuel technology that now allows drivers in the U.S. to switch between gasoline and the biofuel.

Cellulosic ethanol — fuel derived from woody plants and waste biomass — has the potential to become an affordable, renewable transportation fuel that rivals gasoline, but lignin, one of the most ubiquitous components of the plant cell wall, gets in the way.

Shifts in the use of gasoline and ethanol to fuel vehicles in Sao Paulo created a unique atmospheric chemistry experiment

Several US states, such as California, have laws requiring a 20 % -30 % ethanol blend in gasoline, which also helps reduce emissions of ultrafine particulate matter.

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).

Indresh Mathur, Ph.D., who gave one of the talks, explained that cars on streets and highways in the U.S. run on a mixture of 90 percent unleaded gasoline and 10 percent ethanol.

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.

Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).

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.

During two episodes of high sugar prices in 2010 and again in 2011, the price of ethanol increased, causing consumers to switch their fuel usage to gasoline.

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.

«One of the most important concerns with regard to the integrity of pipelines and tanks is the propensity of ethanol at concentrations above 20 volume percent in gasoline to cause cracking of steel,» explains Narasi Sridhar, vice president, director of the materials program at Det Norske Veritas.

The second is that someone will ask the candidate whether he or she supports the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS: the federal program that, among other things, requires all gasoline sold in this country to contain a minimum amount of «renewable biofuel» — which in Iowa, of course, means corn - based ethanol.

I read an article about a month ago about why it is believed many racers will be using ethanol in the future instead of gasoline (I'm not talking nitro based racing).

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

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).

For the purposes of this question, the impact of gasoline vs ethanol will be felt as a change in effective working pressure.

All auto gasoline in the US contains a 10 % ethanol mix as of 2007.

E85, a mixture of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent unleaded gasoline, is an alternative fuel for use in flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs).

In this study, we evaluate transportation impacts and infrastructure requirements for the use of E85 (85 % ethanol, 15 % gasoline) in light - duty vehicles using a combination of corn and cellulosic ethanoIn this study, we evaluate transportation impacts and infrastructure requirements for the use of E85 (85 % ethanol, 15 % gasoline) in light - duty vehicles using a combination of corn and cellulosic ethanoin light - duty vehicles using a combination of corn and cellulosic ethanol.

Furthermore, the Brazilian subsidiary began producing flex - fuel versions for the Civic and the Fit models, capable of running on any blend of gasoline (E20 to E25 blend in Brazil) and ethanol up to E100.

As part of the series» «green racing» initiative, the most successful team in ALMS history is using a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline in the demanding arena of endurance road racing.

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

Doug Fehan: «The performance level of E85 compared to gasoline, when we look at a gallon - to - gallon comparison, there is about 20 percent less energy in a gallon of ethanol than in a gallon of gasoline.

«When we raced at Infineon Raceway in 2004, California regulations required ethanol as an additive, so all of the race cars» fuel lines and seals were already compatible with gasoline / ethanol fuel.

Legislation requires retailers to label fuels containing ethanol on the dispenser, and limits ethanol use to 10 % of gasoline in Australia.

Fittipaldi, who has spent 30 years in his native Brazil as a refiner of ethanol, is an ardent champion of ethanol as a viable alternative to gasoline.

One key topic of current concern is the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)-- a law that requires annual increases in the amount of ethanol to be added to gasoline.

A 5.7 L «iForce» V8 making 381 horsepower and 401 lb - ft of torque is available on all models, and in some regions, the engine can be optioned to run on E85 ethanol / gasoline blend.

In addition, Chevy cites numbers of 380 horsepower and 416 pound - feet of torque when running on E85, a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline.

Determined to keep the F - 150 America's best selling pickup, Ford continues to offer a dizzying array of configurations (a total of 60 in all) as well as a new 5.4 - liter V8 Flex Fuel engine that can run on E85, a blend of 85 - percent ethanol and 15 - percent gasoline.

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 →

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 Act.

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 lead author of one of the studies referenced in Elisabeth Rosenthal's recent article says in a policy brief that ``... switching from gasoline to corn ethanol doubles greenhouse gas emissions for every mile driven.»

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.

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 what they say, ethanol carries only a fraction of the btu's per gallon than gasoline.