Grassley prods car makers on higher ethanol blends

Brownfield Network
Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 5:51 PM
by Tom Steever

Senator Charles Grassley is sending letters to auto makers to find out what they’re doing to move toward higher blends of ethanol in the non-Flex Fuel cars they make. The Iowa GOP lawmaker says the market for 10 percent blends of ethanol in gasoline will become saturated by 2012 or 2013, and he thinks there’s room to double the amount of renewable fuel in non-Flex Fuel cars.“When I was in Brazil in 2006 I saw first hand, non-Flex Fuel vehicles capable on running on blends of 20 percent to 25 percent ethanol,” Grassley told reporters Tuesday.

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