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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

Green Car Congress

However, the drop in oil prices throughout the 1980s and 1990s made it uneconomic for the Brazilian government to continue its ethanol program. Both production and consumption of ethanol were basically flat for much of the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Consumption of anhydrous ethanol has grown steadily since the 1990s, peaking in 2003.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

CA, NY, MA and other states have had Zero-Emission Vehicle programs since the early 1990s because battery electric vehicles in those states, taking into account power plants, are far cleaner than gasoline cars in reducing urban air pollution and smog. In 2003-04, the US Marine Corps demonstrated a diesel-electric PHEV-20 HUMVEE.

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