Full Title: Energy System Limits Future Ethanol Growth
Author(s): L. Kumins
Publisher(s): EPRINC
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
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Description (excerpt):
The rapid increase in ethanol consumption during 2002-06 will prove to have been a one-time event that captured two thirds of the ultimate near-term market.
Growth beyond the remaining third of ethanol’s potential will depend on ethanol’s ability to replace gasoline as a primary fuel.
Gasoline replacement by ethanol is constrained by two factors: The gasoline-ethanol distribution infrastructure does not deliver ethanol for gasoline blending everywhere in the country, and there are physical limitations on existing vehicles—all 240 million of them—as to how much ethanol they can use in combination with gasoline.