The Renewable Fuel Standard currently requires transportation fuel to contain certain amounts of renewables such as corn grain ethanol regardless of how high it pushes corn prices or how much weather conditions or tariffs on imported ethanol have reduced supplies.
The U.S. currently consumes about 190 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel annually to meet its transportation fuel needs.
Inflation, because costs for fuel, transportation and petroleum derivatives (plastics, glues and the like) would jump.
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Sending oil elsewhere to be refined will waste massive amounts of fuel for transportation.
The biggest factor: Motor fuel and transportation costs are up 21.06 percent from year-ago levels.
By 2050, it will have nearly 700 million, or almost three times the number of registered vehicles currently in the U.S. If China's vehicle fleet grows to these anticipated sizes with today's fuel efficiency and emissions standards, China will need roughly 20 million barrels of oil per day to fuel its transportation sector, which in turn will emit about 3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide every year.
Presently, natural gas used as transportation fuel constitutes only about 0.1 % of total U.S. consumption.
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Many people are trying to figure out whether natural gas really has legs as a transportation fuel.
Not just for heat and power generation, but as a key transportation fuel.
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This legislation would also help make electricity a true transportation fuel, by promoting the manufacture of plug-in hypbrid vehicles.
Growing corn and turning it into a transportation fuel wreaks havoc on our aquifers, our soil and our bank accounts.
The DRIVE Act would also help make electricity a widely used transportation fuel by encouraging the accelerated introduction of plug-in hybrids.
Natural gas will have a harder time replacing oil as a transportation fuel, but there are movements spearheaded by T.
For example, he said, using compressed natural gas as a transportation fuel in a new generation of cars would be a travesty.
Moreover, transportation fuel costs are high around the world at a time when there is little margin for error in the economy.
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So when you develop the wind, you can then remove natural gas from power generation and put it into a transportation fuel market.
And again, the potential for natural gas as a transportation fuel, and the revolution in natural-gas production, undermine the economics of renewable motor fuels.
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Battery technology has proved a major constraint on the ability to turn electricity (including electricity generated from renewable sources) into an efficient transportation fuel.
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Methanol is a liquid, clean, inexpensive, and potentially domestic, transportation fuel for our new cars that can free us from our dependence on petroleum.
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Gas, typically found and exploited in the same sort of places as oil, is easily moved around through plumbing but is not, usually, seen as a transportation fuel.
Oil is found in relatively few places, and its energy density, pumpability and ease of use in internal-combustion engines makes it particularly well suited as a transportation fuel.
The European Commission recently examined the effects of biofuel mandates, and decided to scale back by half its original 2020 target for transportation fuel made from food sources.
We also have huge land and offshore oil reserves vital for transportation fuel, including enormous amounts contained along with gas in oil shale deposits amounting to several hundred years of supply.
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Yep, it's thirsty for alternative sources of transportation fuel.
The technology needed to use natural gas a transportation fuel has been around for many years and is being used around the world and in the United States by a very limited group.
And the disaster in the Gulf only underscores that even as we pursue domestic production to reduce our reliance on imported oil, our long-term security depends on the development of alternative sources of fuel and new transportation technologies.
The pre-holidays drop in the price of gas abated quickly, as average gas prices jumped a whopping 18 cents during the last week, and many consumers and fleet owners would like to avoid such uncertainty in the transportation fuel costs.
The future of a technology that converts dirty cheap coal into clean natural gas for transportation fuel was underscored last night by a Chinese investment in Synthesis Energy Systems(SYMX, NASDAQ), a small Houston company that holds a valuable license for this transforming technology.
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If all those fantasies become reality, the U.S. could, in theory, meet all of its transportation fuel needs with ethanol by 2050 without adding to today's current cropland, according to an exhaustive study by the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental group based in New York.
Honda says hydrogen shows tremendous promise, but critics mention the difficulties in production, transportation and fuel cell lifetime.
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