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The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

by Daniel Yergin · 14 May 2011 · 1,373pp · 300,577 words

to run on biofuels. There is also E85 fuel, which contains between 70 percent and 85 percent ethanol, but it can only be used in flex-fuel vehicles that can switch between oil and ethanol-based fuels or all-ethanol vehicles, specifically designed to accommodate this type of fuel. Currently such vehicles

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3 percent of the U.S. car fleet. All this may strike many as new. But it isn’t, not by any means. THE FIRST FLEX-FUEL VEHICLE Henry Ford did not much care for cities. “There is something about a city of a million people which is untamed and threatening,” he

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’s farmers, Ford ensured that the Model T, at least when he introduced it, could run on either ethanol or gasoline. It was the first flex-fuel vehicle. Later he introduced Fordson tractors that could run on alcohol as well as gasoline. With all that, however, gasoline was the dominant fuel because

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the rising price of oil. Second, thirty years of experience and continuing research dramatically reduced production costs for ethanol. The third was the introduction of flex-fuel autos. These are vehicles with onboard computers that can detect by “sniffing”—that is, sensing whether the fuel is gasoline, a mixture of gasoline and

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ethanol, or mostly ethanol—and then adjust the engine accordingly. Flex-fuel vehicles entered the Brazilian market only in late 2003. José Goldemberg, an esteemed professor at the University of São Paulo, former government official, and one

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of the fathers of the Brazilian ethanol development, recognized that flex-fuel vehicles were transformative. This was the inexpensive breakthrough that would put confidence back into the minds of motorists. It cost only about $100 to make

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a car flex-fuel and thus enable drivers not to be reliant solely on ethanol and so eliminate the risk of driving somewhere and not being able to get

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influential analysis—“the Goldemberg Curve”—that demonstrated that Brazilian ethanol with no subsidies was now cheaper than gasoline. To say that flex-fuel vehicles “caught on” would be an understatement. In 2003 about 40,000 flex-fuel cars were sold in Brazil. By 2008 this number had surged to just over two million, and

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flex-fuel constituted about 94 percent of all new cars sold in Brazil. This means that the motorist at the pump can decide what is cheaper on

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Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence

by Robert Bryce · 16 Mar 2011 · 415pp · 103,231 words

of energy, particularly for the transportation sector. You’re going to see it all over the place. You’re going to see a lot more flex-fuel vehicles. You’re going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there’s no petroleum consumed in the process

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ethanol critics. But if the U.S. continues trying to turn its food into fuel, he warns, “we will bankrupt ourselves with regard to water.” FLEX-FUEL VEHICLES AND THE E85 SCAM The great comic actress Lily Tomlin once said that “no matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up

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’s comment. During the meeting, the automakers were given an opportunity to display their latest vehicles on the White House driveway. The cars were all flex-fuel vehicles (FFVs) that were capable of burning E85. The me- The Impossibility of Independence 193 dia event was held to demonstrate the automakers’ and the

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, said that his company could see a “path” toward “lower amounts of imported oil.” And that path, he said, was going to be driven by flex-fuel vehicles that can use E85. Wagoner was followed by Alan Mulally, the CEO of Ford Motor Co., who said that Ford was supportive of Bush

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that “farm commodity prices have almost no effect on retail prices.” The two went on to claim that if only more automobiles were manufactured as “flex fuel”—that is, able to burn fuel mixtures containing 85 percent ethanol—then oil would have to compete for its share of the motor fuel market

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that the best way to cut American oil imports, and thereby impoverish the petrostates (and in theory, reduce terrorism), is to require automakers to manufacture “flex-fuel” cars. Their rationale is simple: Using more ethanol from corn or other biomass, as well as methanol from coal or other sources, will create competition

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the world’s undisputed sole superpower. Their rhetoric is so attractive that several members of Congress have introduced legislation that would require the production of flex-fuel cars. It’s a simple idea that betrays a near-complete ignorance of the world petroleum business. The ethanol producers and the flex-fuelcar advocates

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Flex-fuel vehicles (FFV), 192–198, 259 Food, vs. ethanol, 158–162 Ford, Gerald, 1, 66 and coal-to-liquids, 214 and energy independence rhetoric, 100–101

Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future

by Robert Bryce · 26 Apr 2011 · 520pp · 129,887 words

that the best way to cut American oil imports, and thereby impoverish the petrostates (and, in theory, reduce terrorism), is to require automakers to manufacture “flex-fuel” cars that can burn motor fuel containing 85 percent ethanol. (For more on this claim, and the people who are promoting it, see my book

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forward by these underinformed-but-persistent sophomores has proved so irresistible that several members of Congress have introduced legislation aimed at requiring automakers to produce flex-fuel cars. Fortunately, none of their proposed bills have passed. The idea that ethanol provides a viable solution betrays a near-complete ignorance of the world

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Living in a Material World: The Commodity Connection

by Kevin Morrison · 15 Jul 2008 · 311pp · 17,232 words

same time and is further away than ever from achieving this. The success of the Brazilian ethanol programme is down to the popularity of the flex-fuel cars, which are vehicles that can run on gasoline and other fuels, such as ethanol. Aided by favourable tax breaks, Brazilian drivers have quickly taken

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flex-fuel cars to the road. The flex-fuel car acts as a safety valve for fluctuating commodity prices. The driver of the flex-fuel car chooses the balance of the mix between the two fuels based on the relative price

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Energy: A Human History

by Richard Rhodes · 28 May 2018 · 653pp · 155,847 words

source of automotive fuel across the first three decades of the twentieth century. Henry Ford designed his first production car, the Model T, with a flex-fuel system: it could run on either gasoline or alcohol, a feature that Ford continued to offer until 1931.20 A brass knob to the right

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Between Road and Rail in the American Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Goettemoeller, Jeffrey, and Adrian Goettemoeller. Sustainable Ethanol: Biofuels, Biorefineries, Cellulosic Biomass, Flex-Fuel Vehicles, and Sustainable Farming for Energy Independence. Maryville, MO: Prairie Oak, 2007. Goklany, Indur. Clearing the Air: The Real Story of the War on Air

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, DC: Humane Society Press, 2001), 8. 19. H. E. Barnard, “Prospects for Industrial Uses of Farm Products,” Journal of Farm Economics 20 (1938): 119. 20. Flex-fuel offered until 1931: David Blume, Alcohol Can Be a Gas! Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century (Santa Cruz, CA: International Institute for Ecological

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Agriculture, 2007), 11. 21. Model T flex-fuel features can be seen on a video hosted by David Blume at Fuel Freedom Foundation online, www.fuelfreedom.org, or on any museum Model T

Sugar: A Bittersweet History

by Elizabeth Abbott · 14 Sep 2011 · 522pp · 144,511 words

1 percent of total automobile sales. To protect themselves against changes in sugar and gas prices, exchange rates and government policies, Brazilians have turned to flex-fueled vehicles such as Fiat, Chevrolet, Ford, Renault and Peugeot cars, the Volkswagen TotalFlex Golf and the Saab biofueled car. (A century ago, Henry Ford introduced

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the Model T, the first flex-fueled car: it ran on either gas or ethanol.) These men are likely prouder of their Model T’s sporty style after its conversion from a

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roundabout body than they are of its flex-fuel capacity—it can use either gas or ethanol as fuel, c. 1910. Brazil’s sugar industry is both efficient and exploitative, relying on streamlined technology

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car, the automotive and fuel industries are a married couple that must find ways to coexist. In Brazil, their common interests are facilitated by having flex-fuel and uni-fuel cars cost the same, and consumer confidence in the future availability of ethanol raises the resale value of flexcars. Although fueling a

The Future Is Asian

by Parag Khanna · 5 Feb 2019 · 496pp · 131,938 words

foreign direct investment (FDI) into Southeast Asia to more than $20 billion, fully aware that it is the future market for Nissan’s electric and flex-fuel (ethanol and other biofuel) vehicles. South Korea has further catapulted Southeast Asia into the top league of manufacturing by offshoring a broad range of electronics

Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

by Parag Khanna · 4 Mar 2008 · 537pp · 158,544 words

to power nuclear plants. Most impressively, Brazil has planted and converted enough sugarcane into clean-burning ethanol to become its largest producer and exporter. The flex-fuel cars that run on it are appearing everywhere. But ethanol production is owned by wealthy families and conglomerates, while poor farmers still hack the sugarcane

Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics

by Francis Fukuyama · 27 Aug 2007

is the deployment of multifuel vehicle technologies that are readily available and compatible with the nation’s current energy infrastructure. One key technology is the flex-fuel vehicle. This feature, which adds only $150 to the cost of a new car, enables the use of any combination of gasoline and alcohols such

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dampen its strategic value, enabling America to regain control over its foreign policy and reduce its vulnerability to an energy catastrophe. A nationwide deployment of flex-fuel cars, plug-in hybrids, and alternative fuels could take place within two decades. But such a transformation will not occur by itself. In a perfect

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The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilisation

by Nicholas P. Money · 22 Feb 2018

concentration of 50 percent. Mixed with gasoline, the distillate becomes E85 ethanol, a fuel blend with a maximum ethanol concentration of 85 percent that powers flex-fuel vehicles. To assess the costs and benefits of corn bioethanol properly, we have to consider the energy used to cultivate corn. Corn is an expensive

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there is no need to use amylases to break down starch. Pure gasoline (E0) is no longer sold in Brazil, and newer cars run on flex-fuel blends ranging from 25 percent ethanol in E25, to pure ethanol in E100 fuel. E27 is the standard blend sold in Brazilian gas stations at