Post by KNOWTHIS on May 9, 2006 18:06:09 GMT -5
I was watching Lou Dobbs tonight and they were talking about the old abandoned Miller brewery plant in NY that’s being converted in to an ethanol production facility. My dad & I were both thinking how great it would be to have a vehicle that would run on ethanol should the fuel ever become available in our area seeing as how it’s slowly starting to gain ground. He just recently bought a 2005 Chevy Silverado.
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Ethanol slowly making progress
A Miller brewery in central New York has been dormant for a decade, but the government, state university and private sector are investing millions to turn it into this: an ethanol production plant.
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I was under the impression that only future models from various automakers would be produced that could burn alternative fuels but I was wrong. We found out that many of them are already on the road now including the model my dad owns and we didn’t even realize it.
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Ethanol or Gas?
Millions of clean-running alternative fuel vehicles are plying American roads, ready and waiting to fill their tanks with ethanol fuel. These are flexible-fuel vehicles, or FFVs, marketed by Ford, General Motors, DaimlerChrysler, Isuzu, Mazda, and Mercedes-Benz since the late 1990s. FFVs are so-named because they can operate seamlessly on any mixture of E85 (a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent unleaded gasoline) or straight unleaded gasoline from the same tank.
The dilemma can be traced directly to the Alternative Motor Fuels Act (AMFA) passed by Congress in 1988, a law that gives automakers incentives to develop and market vehicles that use fuels other than gasoline. Manufacturers can receive a credit of up to 1.2 miles-per-gallon for each FFV produced that can be applied toward meeting their Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) requirements. Unfortunately, there is no corresponding incentive to encourage development of a refueling infrastructure, which brings us to the nearly nonexistent E85 refueling infrastructure today.
Popular models that can run on gasoline or E85 range from the Ford Explorer and Chevrolet Silverado to the Dodge Stratus and Mercedes-Benz C320. These vehicles are available in many, but not all, states, so check with your local dealer or your dealer’s fleet department to confirm availability in your area.
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If you own a newer model vehicle it may already be ethanol capable? The dealer that we bought the truck from didn't even mention this to us. Now if only there'd be some incentives for building more fueling stations. I think right now there's only a few hundred of them nationally?
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Ethanol slowly making progress
A Miller brewery in central New York has been dormant for a decade, but the government, state university and private sector are investing millions to turn it into this: an ethanol production plant.
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I was under the impression that only future models from various automakers would be produced that could burn alternative fuels but I was wrong. We found out that many of them are already on the road now including the model my dad owns and we didn’t even realize it.
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Ethanol or Gas?
Millions of clean-running alternative fuel vehicles are plying American roads, ready and waiting to fill their tanks with ethanol fuel. These are flexible-fuel vehicles, or FFVs, marketed by Ford, General Motors, DaimlerChrysler, Isuzu, Mazda, and Mercedes-Benz since the late 1990s. FFVs are so-named because they can operate seamlessly on any mixture of E85 (a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent unleaded gasoline) or straight unleaded gasoline from the same tank.
The dilemma can be traced directly to the Alternative Motor Fuels Act (AMFA) passed by Congress in 1988, a law that gives automakers incentives to develop and market vehicles that use fuels other than gasoline. Manufacturers can receive a credit of up to 1.2 miles-per-gallon for each FFV produced that can be applied toward meeting their Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) requirements. Unfortunately, there is no corresponding incentive to encourage development of a refueling infrastructure, which brings us to the nearly nonexistent E85 refueling infrastructure today.
Popular models that can run on gasoline or E85 range from the Ford Explorer and Chevrolet Silverado to the Dodge Stratus and Mercedes-Benz C320. These vehicles are available in many, but not all, states, so check with your local dealer or your dealer’s fleet department to confirm availability in your area.
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If you own a newer model vehicle it may already be ethanol capable? The dealer that we bought the truck from didn't even mention this to us. Now if only there'd be some incentives for building more fueling stations. I think right now there's only a few hundred of them nationally?