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However, greater than 10 percent ethanol in outdoor power equipment can corrode metals and rubber and cause engines to break down more quickly.

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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.

In a 1991 study, researchers gave ethanol mixed with orange juice to nursing moms and found that immediately afterward their babies ate about 20 percent less.

In Brazil — a country of 188 million people with the world's 14th largest economy — about 40 percent of the fuel burned in passenger vehicles is ethanol derived from sugarcanIn Brazil — a country of 188 million people with the world's 14th largest economy — about 40 percent of the fuel burned in passenger vehicles is ethanol derived from sugarcanin passenger vehicles is ethanol derived from sugarcane.

The researchers, who found that ethanol requires 29 percent more fossil energy than it provides, question the morality of using grain to fuel cars in the face of world hunger.

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.

By 2001 every BTU consumed in ethanol production generated 67 percent more energy, when coproducts like distillers» grains are taken into account.

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.

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.

«Corn - based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 percent savings [in greenhouse gas emissions], nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years,» the researchers write.

The next day, mice were split into two groups: one control group received water, and the other received water mixed with 20 percent ethanol — drinking alcohol — in their water bottles for two hours.

From the atmosphere's point of view, growing biomass to burn in a power plant and using the electricity to move a car avoids 10 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per acre, or 108 percent more emission offsets than ethanol.

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.

However, ethanol, an alcohol, poisons yeast, and even specially bred strains will only tolerate upward of 20 percent alcohol in their environment before they die off.

But the mice that had a week of ethanol injections — the «hard - drinkers» — lingered in their cocaine compartments much longer, increasing their time there by 14 percent.

Up to 40 percent of corn production in the United States now goes to ethanol fuel.

At MIT, scientists have engineered a new yeast strain that can survive in high levels of sugar and ethanol, producing 50 percent more ethanol than its natural cousins.

In a few areas, primarily the Midwest, a blend that is 85 percent ethanol (E85) is also sold for use in vehicles that have so - called flex - fuel engineIn a few areas, primarily the Midwest, a blend that is 85 percent ethanol (E85) is also sold for use in vehicles that have so - called flex - fuel enginein vehicles that have so - called flex - fuel engines.

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.

«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.

With the help of the nanotechnology - based catalyst which contains multiple reaction sites, the solution of carbon dioxide dissolved in water turned into ethanol with a yield of 63 percent.

When you account for these factors, corn ethanol — currently the most widely produced biofuel in the United States — generates about 43 percent less carbon dioxide than gasoline.

A massive expansion of land use for sugar cane growth in Brazil, and a subsequent increase in ethanol production with the feedstock could reduce global carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector by up to 86 percent of 2014 levels, according to research published in the October issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.

To determine the quantity and activity of antioxidants in fructus lycii, researchers at Australia's Monash University School of Pharmacy analyzed a 95 percent ethanol extract of the fruit.

In an animal study, published in 2011 in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, the researchers gave mice that react badly to insulin feed containing 1 percent ethanol extract of Artemisia dracunculus [PMI5011In an animal study, published in 2011 in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, the researchers gave mice that react badly to insulin feed containing 1 percent ethanol extract of Artemisia dracunculus [PMI5011in 2011 in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, the researchers gave mice that react badly to insulin feed containing 1 percent ethanol extract of Artemisia dracunculus [PMI5011in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, the researchers gave mice that react badly to insulin feed containing 1 percent ethanol extract of Artemisia dracunculus [PMI5011].

* U.S. ethanol production falls 32,000 bpd to 872,000 bpd * U.S. weekly ethanol stocks rise to 18.8 mln barrels (Corrects recent high in ethanol futures to three - year high from record high, paragraph eight) By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, July 13 (Reuters)- U.S. ethanol production fell 3.5 percent while stocks climbed in the latest reporting week, despite profitable margins at many biofuel refineries.

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

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.

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.

After winning its seventh consecutive GT1 manufacturers and team championships in 2007 using E10 (10 percent ethanol), Corvette Racing's twin Compuware C6.R race cars made the transition to E85 for the 2008 season.

«The race cars» fuel systems were already 100 - percent compatible with ethanol, so our preparation for the change to E85 in 2008 basically came down to recalibrating the engines.»

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.

R.L. Polk and Co. research says that almost 593,000 hybrid electric, ethanol - capable E-85 and clean - diesel autos were on Florida's roads in 2006, marking an increase of 22.1 percent from 2005 when there were almost 486,000 alternative - fuel autos on Florida's roads.

Analysis by Kansas State grain scientists found that next generation DDGs (left - overs from the production of ethanol that includes residues of yeast) contain 50.8 percent crude protein, compared with 47.8 percent in soybean meal or 67.1 percent in corn gluten meal.

Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee should be holding a hearing on advancing America's, and the world's, energy future by initiating a sustained quest to break the economic shackles imposed by enduring dependence on oil (that doesn't involve using 40 percent of our corn crop to produce ethanol in a world facing food price spikes).

Biofuels: Production of fuel ethanol, the world's leading biofuel, jumped 19 percent in 2005 to 36.5 billion liters, continuing a growth surge that began in 2000.

Among their suggestions were the following: expand conservation tillage to 100 percent of cropland, stop all deforestation, drive two billion cars on ethanol, increase wind power 80-fold to make hydrogen for cars, replace 1,400 large coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones, and cut electricity use in buildings by 25 percent.

SYDNEY — Spectators at February's Daytona 500 in Florida were handed green flags to wave in celebration of the news that the race's stock cars now use gasoline with 15 percent corn - based ethanol.

The ethanol lobby claims there's a 30 percent net gain in BTUs from ethanol made from corn.

Mid-range gasoline - ethanol blends (greater than 10 percent and less than 85 percent ethanol) should only be used in vehicles approved for their use by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

And there was this: «By using a worldwide agricultural model to estimate emissions from land - use change,» Timothy Searchinger of Princeton and other researchers reported in 2008, «we found that corn - based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 percent savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years.»

This system, now well established in the Brazilian ethanol industry, is spreading to sugar mills in other countries that produce the remaining 80 percent of the world sugar harvest.

For maize ethanol grown in Iowa, the figures are around 0.3 percent into biomass and 0.15 percent into ethanol.

It cited «plausible scenarios in which GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions from corn - grain ethanol are much higher than those of petroleum - based fuels,» and questioned the method by which EPA determined that ethanol would produce 21 percent less emissions.

The 88 percent figure is what the Wang study concluded would be accomplished by ethanol made from switchgrass, which holds greater promise of greenhouse gas reduction than corn - based ethanol, but isn't yet being produced in large quantities.

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.

For example, a 2012 study headed by Michael Wang of the Argonne National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy projected that the corn - based ethanol found at practically all U.S. fuel pumps would cut carbon emissions by around 34 percent in 2015 (Table 7), even when considering changes in land use.