Sasol, the world's largest producer of motor fuel from coal, says it wants to keep exploring.
The biggest factor: Motor fuel and transportation costs are up 21.06 percent from year-ago levels.
At the moment the motor fuel industry is meeting environmental minimums and exceeding the energy independence ones.
Motor fuel also accounts for a larger share of Americans' spending, so falling prices will depress inflation by more.
Ethanol, added to motor fuel, is a great oxygenate and can stretch gasoline supplies blended from 10 to 85 percent by volume.
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In Brazil, ethanol is used both as a gasoline additive (20% to 22% blend) or as a pure motor fuel (100% ethanol).
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The U.S. pays a huge subsidy to transform corn into motor fuel.
However, motor fuel costs fell 0.2% while air transport dropped by 6.8%.
In a similar vein, the EU is now backing away from its earlier edict that 10% of the community's motor fuel should come from plants.
Analysts say the explosion in violence is an attempt by the group to further discredit a government that is already using soldiers to quell nationwide protest over the high price of motor fuel.
Approximately 40% to 50% of U.S. retailers sell unbranded gas, up from an estimated 37% in 2000, according to the National Association of Convenience Stores, which represents the retailers that sell about three-fourths of the U.S.' motor fuel.
The twist that Codexis brings is that unlike petrol, of which each batch from the refinery is chemically different from the others (because the crude oil from which it is derived is an arbitrary mixture of hydrocarbon molecules), biopetrol could be turned out exactly the same, again and again, and thus designed to have the optimal mixture of properties required of a motor fuel.
This sudden surge in exports of oil distillates, the primary source for motor diesel fuel consumed in the U.S., occurred at the same time diesel prices hit record highs.
It develops anaerobic digesters that convert organic waste into biogas used to generate electricity, heat, natural gas and motor vehicle fuel (CNG). quasar already operates eight facilities in Ohio, and several more are in process in the Buckeye State and elsewhere.
The Equinox, GM's fourth-generation fuel-cell car, has an electric motor which has no fuel injection, no pistons, no transmission, no motor oil.
They offer new takes from the Motor City on fuel economy, features, styling and quality.
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Across the road is Amyris, a Californian company which has developed enzymes that in laboratory experiments have turned sugar into substitutes for motor and jet fuel.
Boeing has also flown a Dimona motor glider with an electric motor powered by a fuel cell.
Standards for motor vehicle emissions and fuel quality should be further tightened.
Essentially leveraged as a form of high-tech turbocharging, here a small electric motor gives a modest fuel-free power boost to a direct-fuel-injected 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine.
The term hybrid is used because this type of rocket motor uses neither all-liquid fuel nor all-solid fuel, but a combination of both.
Motor vehicle GHG emission standards implicitly regulate fuel economy.
After spending a recent weekend tooling around suburban Detroit in a hydrogen fuel-cell-powered Honda Motor FCX , I was struck by a remarkable image: By the time my 9-year-old daughter is shopping for her first car, she may well be considering an entirely different kind of automobile--one that runs on hydrogen, not gasoline.
He says the catamaran is far greener than motor boats, making the most of nature, rather than fuel, to move.
And the hottest strategic trend in automaking--led by Ford Motor, Nissan and China--is making lighter, safer and more fuel-efficient cars.
The hybrid cars built by Toyota and Honda Motor (nyse: HMC - news - people ) save fuel and are marvelous engineering exercises, but you don't want to drive on those skinny tires in the Snow Belt, believe me.
Last week, the heads of the Big Three--General Motors, Ford Motor and DaimlerChrysler--pushed back, claiming that achieving those increases in corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) is too costly.
While the gains came across the board, the issue of fuel economy appeared to be on the backburner despite higher gasoline prices: Ford Motor, General Motors and Chrysler all touted strong pickup sales as a key growth driver in August.
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To get around the shortages, some motorists mix their fuel with cooking oil, a practice that isn't particularly good for the motor.
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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