In addition to the United States and Brazil, China and Colombia have also developed bio-ethanol fuel programs.
Here s other little known facts about ethanol:
● Ethanol can be produced from other foods such as fruit, potatoes, grain, barley, wheat, sugar beets, molasses and even skim milk. In addition, ethanol can be produced from hemp, paper and cotton.
● With IndyCar Series cars running on 100 percent fuel grade ethanol, the atmosphere is getting cleaner. Compared with conventional unleaded gasoline, ethanol is a particulate free burning fuel source that combusts cleanly with oxygen to form carbon dioxide and water. Use of ethanol emits a similar amount of carbon dioxide but less carbon monixide than gasoline.
● Corn is the primary source for ethanol in the U. S. One bushel of corn produces around 2.8 gallons of ethanol.
● Iowa will be running its first IndyCar Series in June this year. More than 425 million bushels of Iowa corn are processed annually into ethanol.
● One acre of corn can produce 300 gallons of ethanol. That can run three IndyCar Series cars in the April 1 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.
● U. S. farmers enjoy the increased use of ethanol…. That could provide an additional $6.6 billion in net cash income annually for America s farmers in the next 15 years.
● The corn used for ethanol is not the corn we eat. The corn for ethanol is produced from field corn fed to livestock and uses only the starch portion of the corn kernel. Thus, the remaining vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber are sold as high-value livestock feed.
● Ethanol, from American corn growers, reduces our demand for imported oil by nearly 128,000 barrels each day.
● Tripling ethanol use could replace 600,000 barrels of crude oil daily, which is equivalent to the amount imported from Iraq each day.
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