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The History Of  Alcohol Fuels

Ethanol, now a hot technology, in the 1920s and

1930s, they were making ethanol – or at least knew

how  to.  The Model T required only a carburetor

adjustment  to burn alcohol instead of gasoline.

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Henrey Fords said that “Alcohol was the Fuel

Of The Future”.

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1826    Samuel Morey uses alcohol in the first American internal  combustion   engine prototype.

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1890    Alcohol-fueled engines were used in farm machinery, train  locomotives,  and cars in the U.S.

………..and  Europe. Ethanol was the first fuel used by  American cars before gasoline.

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1896    Henry Ford’s first car, the Quadra cycle, ran on ethanol.

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1908    The Ford Model T  is introduced. It could run on ethanol or  gasoline.

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1919    Prohibition police destroyed corn  alcohol stills, which some  farmers  used to produce low cost

……….ethanol fuel.

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1920    Ethyl alcohol was blended with gasoline in every industrialized nation except the United States.

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1925    France, Germany, Brazil, and other countries had a “mandatory blending” law. It required

0000    gasoline retailers to blend alcohol  in with all gasoline sold.

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1930    The Great Depression forced many more farmers to move to the cities   looking for work,

0000    leaving their alcohol fuel stills behind. Henry Ford a farmer himself, supported ethanol’s use

0000    over gas.  Ford Motors  originally built cars that could be changed slightly to run on gasoline,

0000    alcohol, or kerosene.

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1940    First U.S. fuel ethanol plant built. The U.S. Army built and operated an ethanol plant in Omaha,

0000    Nebraska, to produce fuel for the army and to provide ethanol for regional fuel blending.

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1940    Virtually no commercial  ethanol fuel was sold to the general public in the U.S due to the low price of

0000    gasoline fuel.

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1975    U.S. begins to phase out lead in gasoline. MTBE eventually replaced lead.   Note: Later, between 2004

0000    to 2006, MTBE banned in almost all states,  due to groundwater contamination and health risks.

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1980    Oxygenates added to gasoline included MTBE (Methyl Tertiary Butyl made from natural gas and

0000    petroleum) and ETBE (Ethyl Tertiary Butyl Ether – made from ethanol and E10/E85).

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1988    Denver, Colorado, was the first state to mandate ethanol oxygenates fuels for winter use to control

0000    carbon monoxide emissions.  Other cities  soon followed.

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1990    Clean Air Act Amendments – Mandated the winter use of oxygenated fuels in  39 major carbon

0000    monoxide non-attainment areas (based on EPA emissions  standards for carbon dioxide not being

0000    met) and required year-round use of oxygenates in 9 severe ozone non-attainment areas.

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1992    The Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EP  Act) was passed by Congress to reduce our nation’s dependence on

0000    imported petroleum by requiring certain fleets to  acquire alternative fuel vehicles, which are capable

0000    of operating on non-petroleum  fuels.

 

2003    California began switching from MTBE to ethanol to make reformulated  gasoline. (California 

00000was the  first state to completely ban MTBE, effective (MTBE) is a flammable liquid that has

00000been used as an  additive for unleaded  gasoline since the 1980s.  MTBE increases octane and

00000oxygen levels in  gasoline and reduces pollution emissions.

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2003    Almost ALL states have followed California’s lead, banning MTBE, a few states still have lawsuits

0000    pending with the EPA for exemption from MTBE ban), resulting in MTBE being  replaced by ethanol

0000    nationwide.

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2005    The Energy Policy Act of 2005, written by the EPA contains regulations to ensure that gasoline sold in

0000    the United States contains a minimum volume of renewable fuel (ethanol is a renewable fuel).

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2005    Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP – OMC) is the first marine manufacturer to receive the EPA

0000    “Clean Air Excellence Award”, for their newly re-designed outboard engine called the Evinrude Etec,

0000    specifically designed to run on  E10 ethanol gas.  Almost all marine  engines manufactured prior to

0000    2000  prohibit use of alcohol fuel.  See EPA warnings to boat owners and other widespread

0000    precautionary statements issued by all major engine manufacturers regarding use of alcohol fuel in

0000    a conventional engine.

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2006    Meny marine and auto engine owners report marine damage and severe engine failure caused by

0000    ethanol blend fuels – Investigations reveal gas sold contained over the legal limit of 10% for E10 or

0000    was used in an  engine not designed for gasohol and all types of alcohol-blends of gas.

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2006    The Renewable Fuel Standard Program (RFS) was signed. This national renewable fuel program was

0000    designed  to encourage the blending of renewable fuels (ethanol) into our nation’s motor vehicle

0000    fuel. The nationwide Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), would double the use of ethanol and biodiesel

0000    by 2012.

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2007    Energy Independence and Security Act signed by Congress and the President, required the

0000    use of  15 billion  gallons of renewable (ethanol) fuel by 2015.

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2007    About 6.5 billion gallons were produced.

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2007    Surge in individual states mandating the use of 10% ethanol E10, gasoline.  Rapid increase in

0000    documented engine problems (drivability, performance, parts damage), and lawsuits related to

0000    10 blends of gasoline.  Despite 10% being the universally accepted legal limit for ethanol in

0000    conventional gas-powered engines.

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2009    ACE, Growth Energy and 54 ethanol producers submitted a waiver application to increase E10 to E15.

0000    Without opposition by 5/21/09, E15 was be allowed at public pumps.