Sentences with phrase «percent ethanol as»

This year the Indy 500 switched to a fuel containing 85 percent ethanol as opposed to 100 percent fuel ethanol.

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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.

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.

Renewable energy, such as from photovoltaic electricity and ethanol, today supplies less than 7 percent of U.S. consumption.

As a result, the government of that country has decided to mandate blending 1 percent of ethanol into gasoline for the first time.

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 priceAs 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 priceas well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food priceas the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prices.

They contain more energy per volume; a car driving on a gallon of ethanol will go only 67 percent as far as a car on a gallon of gasoline; on butanol, it can go 80 percent as far.

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).

According to the researchers, hand sanitizers often contain up to 60 percent to 90 percent ethanol or isopropyl alcohol, as well as scents that children might find appealing.

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.

This easily outpaced the percentage of respondents who selected a hydrogen fuel - cell vehicle (15.8 percent), an ethanol / flex fuel vehicle (14.5 percent), or a hybrid (13.8 percent) as their most likely alternative - fuel vehicle purchase.

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

Determined to keep the F - 150 America's best - selling pickup, Ford continues to offer a dizzying array of configurations 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.

Other boosters, including Woolsey, claim there are huge energy gains (as much as 700 percent) to be had by making ethanol from grass.

The «market conditions» that these ethanol producers are referring to is the fact that the average price of ethanol has dropped some 30 percent since May, as market subsidies combined with a lack of infrastructure for its delivery and use have created a surplus of the renewable fuel.

As biofuel mandates increase, the ethanol volume required for blending into gasoline will exceed 10 percent — known as the «E10 Blend Wall.&raquAs biofuel mandates increase, the ethanol volume required for blending into gasoline will exceed 10 percent — known as the «E10 Blend Wall.&raquas the «E10 Blend Wall.»

In addition, strong CO2 abatement programs are likely to knock a percent or two off economic growth rates and, if ethanol is still a preferred tactic, will likely substantially raise food prices as well.

As we approach the 10 percent ethanol threshold in our fuel mix, which could mean substantial economic harm to American consumers, it is imperative that Congress revisit this broken RFS policy.

... Oil industry proponents have said that the escalating requirements of ethanol to be added would force them to sell fuel blends exceeding 10 percent or export gasoline, a phenomenon known as «hitting the blend wall.»

Automakers were given fuel economy credits for selling cars capable of running on fuel that is 85 percent ethanol (known as E85), under the theory that this would help drive E85 to market and we would use less oil.

Around 40 percent of the corn grown in the United States is used as ethanol in our gasoline.

The Vanguard is designed to run on either pure gasoline or a mixture of gasoline and as much as 85 - percent ethanol.

Although most gas contains 10 percent ethanol, the newer type referred to as E15, has 15 percent of the alcohol blend in it.