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Study Concludes That Large-Scale Transport of Ethanol Could Negate Its Economic and Environmental Benefits Compared to Gasoline

Green Car Congress

To reduce economic and environmental costs, the CMU team recommends regional concentration of E85 blends for future ethanol production and use. This amount of fuel production represents 8% of light duty gasoline consumption in 2006, calculated on an energy basis. The study did not consider the potential use of pipelines.

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Can Alt-Fuel Credits Accelerate EV Adoption?

Cars That Think

federal government has mandated that the country’s government-operated planes, trains, and automobiles run on a fuel blend partly made from corn- and soybean-based biofuels. In one way, the program in question—the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)—is a relic from a bygone era. For the past decade and a half, the U.S. Now, it is 2022.

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