So the fuel consumption reduction with the EDIE with 10% of the fuel supply coming form ethanol would yield a gasoline consumption reduction of 33%.
NOte that 23% reduction in fuel consumption is due to the efficiency increase and another 5% reduction is due to the replacement of 5% of the gas by the ethanol (EDIE uses 5% ethanol).
Among them: enactment of a national speed limit of 65 miles per hour, freight industry participation in an Environmental Protection Agency program to reduce fuel consumption, and a reduction of highway congestion by raising the fuel tax if necessary.
Why, then, are these pilots - offering a five pence reduction in fuel duty - only benefiting island communities?
Thamesdown Transport said this is due to the loss of subsidies from the council and a reduction in fuel duty rebate.
While rising fuel prices and greenhouse reduction goals may end up favoring the shipping industry as a whole, they will also do a lot to re-shape the industry.
The forum wants pensioners' incomes increased through a variety of means including higher state pensions, an increase in winter fuel payments, a reduction in tax on boilers and radiators, and bills that are easier to understand.
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Other provisions in the amendment would require the labeling of new tires so consumers can choose based on their efficiency, contributing to as much as a 3% reduction in fuel consumption and the electrification of truck stops.
Some see the reduction of fossil fuel usage or carbon emissions as the most important goal.
"Rising crude oil prices may continue to push up the price of gasoline, offsetting any reduction in the fuel taxes, " says a May Congressional Research Service research report.
By the same token, if rapeseed is grown using lots of fertiliser made from natural gas, then the resulting biodiesel brings relatively little reduction in emissions or fuel imports.
Any reduction in the amount of fuel we use translates into fewer convoys, and thus fewer lives lost protecting that fuel.
The planes, set to arrive between 2014 and 2018, will provide improved reliability, a 30% increase in fuel efficiency, and a 20% reduction in unit operating costs.
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France's fishermen, another grumpy lot, came off best from his tax package, aided not by direct cuts in their fuel costs, but by a special reduction to the heavy social taxes they pay as employers.
"A more significant reduction in global warming could potentially be achieved by increasing fuel efficiency or shifting from petrol to diesel, " the report said.
And if all fossil-fuel power plants were converted to nuclear or hydro-electric power, a 35% reduction in emissions would result.
The letter, organized by Beyond Zero Emissions, comes as a response to the failure of the much-compromised Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), which was pilloried as a giveaway to fossil fuel industries and ineffective for driving clean energy deployment.
So that is a 28% reduction in gasoline consumption with a supply of ethanol equalling only 5% of the total fuel supply.
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