Gasification of coal offers the potential to turn dirty burning hydrocarbons into cleaner burning liquid fuels, such as synthetic natural gas, jet fuel and gasoline, as well as hydrogen for fuel cell use, a developing field.
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None of these factors bode well for consumers' confidence as they struggle with common living expenses, such as higher home-heating fuel and gasoline costs.
Ethanol is increasingly being used as an alternative fuel for gasoline.
In other words, conventional fuel (gasoline and diesel) light-duty vehicles will be with us for many years to come, exhaling pollutants and making the world a dirtier place.
Obama quickly waived reforumalated gasoline fuel specs so a much broader, deeper avaialabe conventional gasoline could be used.
The Environmental Protection Agency has granted a nationwide waiver for fuel blends to make more gasoline and diesel fuel available throughout the country.
The company, Air Fuel Syndication, then uses the carbon dioxide and hydrogen to produce methanol which in turn is passed through a gasoline fuel reactor, creating petrol.
Because diesel engines are more fuel-efficient than gasoline engines, the use of diesel fuel is expected to continue to expand.
Methanol is used as a blending agent for gasoline fuel according to Rigdon.
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That led to fuel shortages and gasoline rationing in the region for several days.
Rolling blackouts were planned across much of Japan and there were concerns about shortages of fuel oil and gasoline.
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Ford, meanwhile, has stayed away from diesel and focused on hybrids and EVs as well as more fuel-efficient gasoline engines through its EcoBoost technology.
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One frequent question deals with Compressed Natural Gas or Liquified Natural Gas vehicles (Natural Gas Vehicles or NGV) in comparison with tri-Flex Fuel vehicles ( Gasoline, Ethanol, Methanol) vehicles.
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It has a highly fuel-efficient gasoline engine that gives Volt drivers a peace of mind and a confidence about not being stranded that drivers of Nissan Leaf and other EVs can only envy coupled with most of the advantages of being able to drive Volt in electric-only mode when desired.
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Brian Foody's Chevy Impala can run on either gasoline or fuel that's 85 percent ethanol.
Further, heavy crude oils do not produce as much gasoline or fuel oil as light crude oil.
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You know, in the '70s the Japanese lapped them because they were doing the fuel efficient cars when gasoline started getting expensive.
Neither of these products can be directly distilled into gasoline or fuel oil (kerosen, jet, and diesel) or indeed any other conventional petroleum product.
Automakers have also been looking for ways to expand diesel passenger vehicles sales in the U.S. because the engines are 30% more fuel-efficient than gasoline engines.
Ironically, at the very moment that oil prices were at an historical high, the only alternative fuel available to keep gasoline prices from going even higher was facing an unstinting and ferocious attack.
It is also considering conducting tests using gasoline cut with 10% ethanol, like most commercially available fuel, instead of the pure gasoline prescribed now.
That increase came despite mandates for cleaner gasoline and diesel fuel, which take longer to make.
First, companies that currently consume gasoline or diesel fuel must consider all avenues for fuel conversion.
Flex fuel engines can run on gasoline, E85(85% ethanol), or any combination in between.
The end goal is to eventually replace gasoline and diesel fuel from cars and trucks.
These so-called flex-fuel vehicles can burn either gasoline or ethanol or almost any mixture of the two.
Valero Energy , a refiner that processes lower quality crude oil into products like gasoline and jet fuel.
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For example, Kinder has a virtual monopoly in moving gasoline and jet fuel from California to Arizona and Nevada.
The U.S. currently consumes about 190 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel annually to meet its transportation fuel needs.
Any gasoline or other fuel-supply crunches probably will be isolated, said Andrew Lipow, president of consulting firm Lipow Oil Associates.
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