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May 14, 2010

ALTERNATIVE FUEL * USA - Test shows raising ethanol blend to E15 could damage engines

Washington,DC,USA -
Autobloggreen, by Eric Loveday -May 7, 2010: -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be faced with a decision on the future of ethanol soon and no matter what choice is made, it won't be a popular one. Ethanol producers are pushing the EPA to raise the blend level in gasoline to 15 percent (E15), but automakers and oil companies are pushing back with hopes of keeping the current 10 percent level (E10)... Up until now, automakers speculated that damage to this component or failure of that part would occur with the move to E15. Without concrete evidence that E15 could prove damaging to vehicles, it seems quite likely that the EPA will move forward and raise levels...The two sides, the auto industry and ethanol producers, have pushed back and forth for some time now. The auto industry wants the changeover to E15 to be delayed until further testing is complete, ethanol producers need the switch to be immediate or they risk losing a lot of cash...


* What has 18 wheels and employs 600,000 people? This is a win-win-win

Washington,DC,USA -The Christian Science Monitor, by Joshua M. Brown -May 14, 2010: -- The American Power Act subsidizes natural gas for the trucking industry. A well-executed green conversion for the some three million trucks on road right now would not only reduce carbon emissions but add more than half-a-million green jobs to the economy... The Senate's new climate bill could revolutionize the trucking industry... The good news is that this bill doubles the subsidy for buyers of nat gas trucks to $64,000. Combined with the $1 per gallon difference between diesel and nat gas fuel, this brings the payback on buying a cng or lng truck down to a one year time frame. We're talking Tipping Point with those economics, not to mention the positive impact on the environment as nat gas burns cleaner... (Photo by Ben Garvin/The Christian Science Monitor: A few of the more than three million 18-wheelers on the road today are shown parked at a truck stop off the Massachusetts I-90 Turnpike)

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