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[The Business Insider] By that standard, Midwestern ethanol used in California releases more heat-trapping carbon dioxide for every unit of energy than does regular gasoline made in the state, according to the board.

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[The Sarnia Observer] Ethanol is a go - The Sarnia Observer - Ontario, CA: Ethanol is a fuel additive made by distilling corn or other organic matter. It is blended with conventional gasoline and results in cleaner fuel combustion and fewer emissions.

[Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] United States: State's proposed emissions rule sparks firestorm: That decision has touched off a furious debate among scientists, some of them industry-supported and others with environmental affiliations. A letter criticizing the air board's methods, released by the New Fuels Alliance, an ethanol industry group, was signed by 111 scientists, including researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.

[Stop The ACLU] Stop Illinois from Adopting California’s Destructive Fuel ...: In fact, of the 30 models of flex fuel vehicles available in the nation, California’s stringent standards forced auto manufacturers to exclude 11 of them from the California market allowing only 19 to be sold there. If Illinois adopts the California standards, then a large portion of those flex fuel vehicles will also be excluded from the Illinois market severely limiting consumer choice not to mention severely damaging the local ethanol industry that Illinois has spent so much effort to build up.

[Transport Gooru] California's proposed emissions rule sparks firestorm | Transport ...: But some members of California’s beleaguered renewable-fuels industry greeted the initiative with outrage. Tom Koehler, spokesman for Pacific Ethanol, said the proposal was “a perversion of science and a prescription for disaster.”

[Cleantech Blog] Cleantech Blog: Ethanol - the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, the Beautiful: GM and Ford have pushed flexfuel vehicles that can run on gasoline or E85, which is a blend with as much as 85 percent ethanol. For the 2009 model year, the best rated car running on E85 in the United States was the Chevrolet HHR using a stick-shift, with a United States EPA gasoline mileage rating of 26 miles per gallon, and an E85 rating of only 19 miles per gallon.

[WSJ.com: Environmental Capital - WSJ.com] Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : California Dreaming: Team Obama ...: With regard to GHG emissions, yes I agree that CO2 emissions equal consumption with respect to autos that use the same fuel (and thus my statement above is partially incorrect). However, that would not be the case when you compare gasoline driven autos with those that use different fuels (diesel, ethanol or other biofuels) as each fuel type has a different amount of carbon.

[Green Inc.] A Slugfest Over Higher Ethanol Blends - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com: That said, in the second half of 2008, ethanol monthly consumption in Brazil surpassed that of gasoline for the first time ever, considering both the ethanol that is blended into gasoline, and ethanol that is used directly as fuel by our flex-fuel vehicle fleet. (vehicles supplied by GM, Ford, Volkswagen and others)

[myGreenCar.eu] green cars | Producers seeking waiver for 15% blend for ethanol ...: Posted by Sam Abuelsamid. Mar-6-2009 I. Audi R15 TDI may add two more races to 2009 ALMS schedule. Posted by Sam Abuelsamid. Mar-6-2009 I. California Air Resources Board proposes Low Carbon Fuel Standard. Posted by Sebastian Blanco ...

[New Energy and Fuel] An Electric Motor Efficiency Idea Update | New Energy and Fuel: Heins’ made a prototype for Charles, who’s been demonstrating it to customers and contacts throughout California. During a demonstration to some AT&T contacts the motor was spinning at its full rated capacity using only 75 watts of power, when normally it takes 250 watts to do the same work.

[Warner_Todd_Huston's blog] Stop Illinois from Adopting California’s Destructive Fuel ...: If Illinois adopts the California standards, then a large portion of those flex fuel vehicles will also be excluded from the Illinois market severely limiting consumer choice not to mention severely damaging the local ethanol industry .

[Switchboard, from NRDC] Switchboard, from NRDC :: Roland Hwang's Blog :: Yes They Can: That's because the CAFE program gives much too much credit to alternative fuel cars (include flex fuel vehicles that never run on ethanol) and ignores completely cheap reductions in air conditioning systems (the refrigerant is 1300 times more powerful than CO2 as a global warming pollutant). Therefore, a single national standard must be done by EPA as a GHG gas standard where all four of the motor vehicle GHG pollutants are simultaneously addressed.

[FarmPolicy.com] FarmPolicy.com » Blog Archives » Biofuels; Climate Change, Carbon ...: Mufson indicated that, “Under the existing 10 percent limit, ethanol production would theoretically top out at 14 billion gallons a year based on current fuel consumption trends, or less because of transportation constraints that limit ethanol deliveries in many parts of the country. That falls far short of the targets in current law, which requires refiners to use 36 billion gallons a year of ethanol by 2022, up from the current 10.5 billion gallon production level.

[Manly's Republic] Another nail in the climate change coffin | Manly's Republic: Let’s put aside the stubborn fact that, gram for gram, gasoline has a much higher energy output coefficient than ethanol or any other biofuel - higher even than elemental hydrogen. The other stubborn fact is that the amount of energy necessary to create a gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel is less than the amount of energy generated by a gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel.

[AutoblogGreen] RETECH 2009: hydrogen proponent Sandy Thomas says fuel cells beat ...: Rather than diluting all that good ethanol into E10/E15/E20 mixes, adding a small separate tank for E85 (actually E85+ to M85+) to vehicles, and designing the ICE to inject the E85 only as needed to suppress detonation allows greatly increased turbo pressures without reducing compression ratio, thus facilitates significant engine downsizing for a given performance. The main, larger, tank could then contain anything from E0 to E85 (whatever is most economically available).

[TDI Curious] TDI Curious » Blog Archive » Geneva 2009: unveiling of the Polo ...: The TDI engine isn’t the only reason behind this amazing fuel economy: the Polo BlueMotion Concept has a featherweight body (1,080 kg), uses all the aerodynamic tricks of the trade, its height has been reduced by 10 mm, and it has been equipped with low-resistance tires. These modifications have given 0.8L/100 km on the highway.

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