Facts on Flex Fuels
Series: February 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
From: Pat Maxwell
Length: 00:01:30
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Car companies say that flex-fuel vehicles reduce our dependence on foreign oil. But how do they measure up where the rubber meets the road? Since the mid 1980’s, U.S. automakers have produced five million vehicles that can run on gasoline or E85, a mixture of gasoline and ethanol derived from corn. They plan to make two million flex-fuel vehicles a year by 2010. But for those five million cars and trucks that are already on the road, fewer than a thousand gas stations offer E85 -- a tiny fraction of the 176,000 fueling stations in the United States...
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Car companies say that flex-fuel vehicles reduce our dependence on foreign oil. But how do they measure up where the rubber meets the road? Since the mid 1980’s, U.S. automakers have produced five million vehicles that can run on gasoline or E85, a mixture of gasoline and ethanol derived from corn. They plan to make two million flex-fuel vehicles a year by 2010. But for those five million cars and trucks that are already on the road, fewer than a thousand gas stations offer E85 -- a tiny fraction of the 176,000 fueling stations in the United States...
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