- California is already home to the nation’s 3rd largest fleet of E85 Flexible Fuel Vehicles, with more than 300,000 on the road.
- California’s energy policy calls for replacing 20% of the state’s petroleum fuel with alternative fuels, including ethanol, by 2020.
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- California regulations call for a 10% reduction in carbon emissions by 2020, targeting carbon in transportation fuels.
- Ethanol offers a dramatic reduction in carbon emissions and greenhouse gases.
- California already uses more than 1 billion gallons of ethanol blended in gasoline every year.
- Ethanol can be cost-competitive with gasoline at today’s average prices – without subsidies.
- By 2010, U.S. ethanol production could displace the equivalent of 311,000 barrels of imported crude oil per day—more than one large oil tanker per week.
- The use of E-10 Unleaded (10 percent ethanol/90 percent ordinary unleaded gasoline) is approved for use by every major automaker in the world.
- One bushel of corn yields about 2.8 gallons of ethanol.
- A typical 40 million gallon ethanol plant creates 32 full-time jobs and generates an additional $1.2 million in tax revenue for a community.
- Ethanol production results in a net energy gain—producing 67 percent more energy than it takes to grow and process the corn into ethanol.
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