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* USA - Cleaner Diesels Help Ford Clear the Air
USA -Auto Spectator -Jan 15, 2007: -- North America is on the cusp of a clean-diesel revolution, driven by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) mandated move to ultra-low sulfur diesel, which was launched Oct. 15... Ultra-low sulfur diesel has a sulfur content of 15 parts per million (ppm), compared with low sulfur diesel at 500 ppm. Reducing the sulfur content will allow automotive manufacturers to build clean-diesel-powered cars and trucks that can meet the government’s stringent new emissions regulations... "Removing the sulfur enables reduction of particulate matter by over 90 percent," says Peter Misangyi, fuels and lubricants specialist for Ford Motor Company. "As a normal customer, you won't see the telltale black smoke coming from the exhaust pipes anymore. In addition, NOx emissions are cut in half"... In fact, the EPA estimates that by 2030, when the entire fleet (on and off highway) has been turned over, nitrogen oxide emissions will be reduced by 4 million tons yearly, and cancer-causing particulate matter will be reduced by 250,000 ton per year...
* USA - Needs better ways to ship ethanol fuel
New York,NY,USA -Scientific American, by Timothy Gardner/Reuters Summit -Jan 16, 2007: -- The United States will need to make big improvements in shipping ethanol from the U.S. heartland -- perhaps even building pipelines from the Midwest to the coasts -- to transport the fuel to markets, the head of a U.S. ethanol industry group said on Tuesday... High oil prices, decreasing domestic crude production and growing demand for fuels that emit less greenhouse gases have pushed the U.S. government to increase incentives for making ethanol... The U.S. Department of Energy has set a goal of boosting ethanol production from current output of about 5 billion gallons per year (19 billion liters) to 60 billion gpy (227 billion liters) by 2030... (Photo, by Jason Reed/REUTERS: U.S. needs better ways to ship ethanol fuel U.S. President George W. Bush (L) walks past a fuel pump advertising E85 ethanol at the Hoover Public Safety Center in Hoover, Alabama September 28, 2006. The United States will need to make big improvements in shipping ethanol from the U.S. heartland to transport the fuel to markets, the head of a U.S. ethanol industry group said on Tuesday)
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