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Ethanol’s Popularity
By Mr Ethanol | November 16, 2007
The Express Times:
Ethanol’s fortune rose in recent years with the phased removal of the gasoline supplement methyl tertiray butyl ether, or MTBE. The natural gas was at first the golden child of the oil industry when the Clean Air Act Amendment of 1990 required the sale of oxygenated fuels in areas that had unhealthy carbon monoxide levels.
But groundwater contamination problems with MTBE have caused it to be phased out thus accelerating low-level ethanol usage. Since any car manufactured today can run on up to 10% ethanol many drivers may use ethanol and not know it.
Ethanol proponents want to see increased usage of E-85 — a fuel blend of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline — to reduce the dependence on foreign oil. The hitch is that E-85 requires flex fuel cars, fueling stations and ethanol users get lower gas mileage. Users have to be willing to forego mileage for the comfort of using a renewable fuel. But even then there is the lack of publicly accessible fueling stations one of the closest is in Philadelphia. In early 2007, there were only almost 1,200 fueling stations offering E-85.
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