10% Ethanol

With high gasoline prices, ethanol looks better every day.  Ethanol is high octane, renewable, and made right here in the USA.  It also provides substantial clean air benefits we can't ignore.

Every vehicle made in the U.S. today is designed to run on ethanol. 

We use more than 700 million bushels of corn to make ethanol in the U. S.

Each bushel of corn can be made into 2.7 gallons of ethanol; barley produces 2.0 gallons per bushel.

Only the starch is used to make ethanol, so valuable (protein and oil) is not destroyed.

Ethanol is cost competitive and reduces our dependence on foreign oil.

Even at the 10% level, ethanol provides significant reduction in pollutants like carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide.  Both pollutants aggravate Global Warming!

E-85 Ethanol

E-85 is 85% ethanol & 15% gasoline.

The higher concentration of ethanol in E-85 cuts air pollution even more, decreasing ground level ozone 25% and air toxins like benzene by 80%.

Major automobile manufacturers produce more than 500,000 flexible fuel vehicles (FFV) annually that can use E85.

E-85 is now available at the Ft. Meade Chevron station on Ft. Meade Road in Laurel, MD (Rt. 198); Joyce Road Citgo station in Arlington, VA; Citgo station at 2042 West Street in Annapolis, MD; and Montgomery County Fleet Management Services on Crabbs Branch Way in Rockville, MD.  Additional stations will be coming soon to Baltimore, MD and Gaithersburg, MD.

E-85 is cost competitive with mid-grades and premium gasoline.

E Diesel

E- iesel is a mixture of #2 diesel fuel, 10-15% ethanol and a blending additive.

The U.S. uses more than 50 billion gallons of diesel fuel annually.

If E diesel captured only 10% of the diesel market it would use 300 million bushels of corn each year.

Early testing shows E diesel cuts the worst kinds of air pollutants (carbon monoxide by 27%, nitrogen oxide or NOx by 5% and particulate matter (PM) or black smoke by 41%).

E diesel offers comparable fuel economy at only pennies more per gallon...a good trade off for cleaner air.

This revolutionary pollution fighter could be in broad commercial applications within 5-10 years.

Maryland Ethanol

Ethanol may soon become a Maryland produced fuel.  The newly formed Mid-Atlantic BioFuels project is developing a business plan to produce ethanol from small grains such as barley or wheat.

Ethanol will provide a locally grown renewable energy supply for Maryland.

This new market opportunity will provide economic benefits to grain farmers reducing the loss of Maryland's valuable farmland to development.

Expanding the acreage of winter grown small grains will reduce the amount of nutrients going into the Chesapeake Bay.

What's In A Bushel?

32 pounds of starch OR

33 pounds of sweetener OR

2.7 gallons of ethanol fuel AND

11.4 pounds of gluten feed AND

3 pounds of gluten meal AND

1.6 pounds of corn oil

For More Information on the Internet:

Maryland Grain Producers Association
www.marylandgrain.com

National Corn Growers Association
www.ncga.com

Renewable Fuels Association
www.ethanolrfa.org

National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition
www.e85fuel.org

Mid-Atlantic BioFuels
www.midatlanticbiofuels.com