So, especially in America, is the growing use of ethanol, an alternative fuel made of corn.
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Creating diverse alternative fuel sources here at home is, simply put, a national security imperative.
It's their reward for building these alternative-fuel vehicles, even though the vehicles themselves rarely actually burn alternative fuel.
The report projects that by 2040, alternative fuel vehicles will consume about 13.7% of our light-duty vehicle fuel.
To be sure, selling alternative fuel vehicles has never been an easy task for Detroit or other carmakers.
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If the carmakers don't start making both beautiful, nonpolluting alternative fuel cars, they deserve the fate of the dinosaurs.
Currently, roughly 50 percent of GSA's 210, 000 leased vehicles are alternative fuel vehicles.
In the meantime, the competitive landscape keeps shifting as alternative fuel sources, such as natural gas, keep popping up.
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Additional tax credits for choosing hybrid, fuel cell, alternative fuel and advanced lean-burn technology vehicles have been offered since 2005.
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If the natural gas legislation passes, it will be a huge boon to this always-promising but never off-the-ground alternative fuel.
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More and more gas stations nationwide are installing CNG pumps as natural gas vehicles rapidly become the alternative fuel of choice.
The VAM will help agencies identify opportunities to incorporate alternative fuel vehicles and identify and eliminate unnecessary vehicles from their fleets.
"And so I thought, well, that could be really cool in that you could have big oil versus alternative fuel, " he said.
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Unlike other alternative fuel options, natural gas solutions are here right now.
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There's a 20 percent increase in the amount of money to be spent on ethanol, which is the alternative fuel of the moment.
Say this about ethanol: At least it does not present quite the logistical nightmare that comes with the other popular alternative fuel, hydrogen.
In addition to alternative fuel, Air Canada will also use other techniques and measures it has adopted to reduce the flight's environmental impact.
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The country has become a leading centre for the development of alternative fuel technologies in recent years with the support of the Welsh Assembly Government.
America's transport infrastructure is in need of overhaul (see article), and many worthy projects exist that could boost energy efficiency or alternative fuel sources.
Ethanol is increasingly being used as an alternative fuel for gasoline.
Vincentric included 23 diesel vehicles in its alternative fuel analysis which is just about every consumer and commercial diesel currently on sale in the United States.
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Rather than abandoning the only alternative fuel currently produced on a commercial scale, Sweetwater Ethanol wants to reinvent it by retooling the way ethanol is made.
Also, diesel was considered an alternative fuel and he wanted his brand to be thought of as an alternative to the clothing trends of the time.
As we seek to integrate this alternative fuel into the energy mix and cultivate its reserves within our borders, continued regulatory overreach threatens to block those objectives.
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Experts also say the potential savings here may be offset by higher prices somewhere else as farmers use their more crop land to experiment with alternative fuel crops.
Hiring alternative fuel cars without having to worry about infrastructure is a great way of making people more comfortable with this technology and tackling worries such as range anxiety.
But in fact, the twin decisions could actually give a boost to energy companies that are already betting their future on investment in alternative fuel sources such as wind, nuclear and coal technologies.
Ironically, at the very moment that oil prices were at an historical high, the only alternative fuel available to keep gasoline prices from going even higher was facing an unstinting and ferocious attack.
Ethanol has been a hot topic in recent months and since many countries in Latin America produce sugar cane, the promotion of this alternative fuel could have great impact on the development of the Americas.
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Typical of the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) rules, there are many credits offered for different types of vehicles based on their drivetrains, encouraging automakers to make and sell alternative drive and alternative fuel vehicles.
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