Stéphane Dumas
17/05/2004, 17h10
une station-service de Toronto a ouvert la 1ère pompe au biodiesel dans la région http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2004/13/c2583.html http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/5/prwebxml125498.php
http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/001560.html http://www.greenincubator.com/aboutbiodiesel/
Et un article sur le E85 (essence composé de 85% d'éthanol avec 15% d'essence) trouvé dans le Denver post http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~2117422,00.html
Fuel at a promotional price of 85 cents a gallon sounds like a great deal. But will anyone show up?
That's the question confronting purveyors of the ethanol-based fuel E85, which is selling at 1970s prices today only at a new E85 fueling station in Bennett.
About 40,000 vehicles in Colorado are made to run on either gasoline or ethanol. Many of the cars' owners, however, aren't aware of that fact.
The vehicles carry the designation "flex fuel," indicating an engine that can take ethanol, gasoline or any combination of the two.
But knowledge of the vehicles' dual capability has been slow to circulate, to the chagrin of ethanol boosters.
"Most people, including auto dealers sometimes, don't even know about it," said Jared Fiel of the Colorado Corn Growers Association, a proponent of ethanol fuels that are made largely from corn.
The first flex-fuel cars were built in 1992. By the end of this year, an estimated 4 million of the vehicles will be on the road.
Roughly one of every four cars built by Detroit automakers this year have flexible-fuel engines, including most 2004 versions of the Ford Explorer and Taurus; Dodge Ram and Stratus; Chrysler Sebring; Chevrolet Suburban, Tahoe and Silverado; and GMC Sierra and Yukon, among other makes and models.
Flex-fuel vehicles typically have the letters "FFV" on the side or rear of the cars. Some carry a small logo of a winding road and a green leaf.
But consumers often are oblivious to the designations. If auto dealers don't mention the flexible capability and if buyers don't read their owners' manuals, flex-fuel remains a hidden concept.
Laverne Herrera of Denver said she is "sort of aware" of her 2000 Ford Taurus' flex-fuel capacity. Yet she has never fueled the vehicle with E85, and she said she would have no idea where to find an ethanol pump.
E85 is a fuel made of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. The new E85 pumps in Bennett, at the Roggen Farmers Elevator, make up the 10th ethanol fueling station in Colorado.
Three are in metro Denver; the others are in Brush, Colorado Springs, Greeley, Pueblo, Watkins and Yuma.
The fuel sells in a range of a few cents a gallon more than regular gasoline to several cents less, depending on location and competition. Ethanol burns more cleanly than gasoline and has higher octane ratings, but it produces slightly fewer miles per gallon than gasoline.
Lack of consumer and auto-dealer knowledge about flex-fuel, combined with relatively sparse fueling locations, have slowed the growth of ethanol fueling in Colorado.
Although the Colorado Corn Growers Association has no statistics on ethanol sales, the group said that only after the addition of several new fueling stations will annual sales surpass 1 million gallons - a fraction of the state's total gasoline volume.
"People just don't think of it very much," said Bill Barrow, president of the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association. "In this marketplace, it doesn't seem that important to drivers and dealers."
The Colorado state government has 404 flex-fuel vehicles in its fleet of 5,600, but the use of ethanol in the cars is "very minimal," said state fleet manager Scott Madsen, because of the small number of E85 stations.
Ethanol proponents said the proposed construction of an $84 million ethanol-processing plant in La Salle will boost local supplies, bring prices down and help induce demand for E85.
http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/001560.html http://www.greenincubator.com/aboutbiodiesel/
Et un article sur le E85 (essence composé de 85% d'éthanol avec 15% d'essence) trouvé dans le Denver post http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~2117422,00.html
Fuel at a promotional price of 85 cents a gallon sounds like a great deal. But will anyone show up?
That's the question confronting purveyors of the ethanol-based fuel E85, which is selling at 1970s prices today only at a new E85 fueling station in Bennett.
About 40,000 vehicles in Colorado are made to run on either gasoline or ethanol. Many of the cars' owners, however, aren't aware of that fact.
The vehicles carry the designation "flex fuel," indicating an engine that can take ethanol, gasoline or any combination of the two.
But knowledge of the vehicles' dual capability has been slow to circulate, to the chagrin of ethanol boosters.
"Most people, including auto dealers sometimes, don't even know about it," said Jared Fiel of the Colorado Corn Growers Association, a proponent of ethanol fuels that are made largely from corn.
The first flex-fuel cars were built in 1992. By the end of this year, an estimated 4 million of the vehicles will be on the road.
Roughly one of every four cars built by Detroit automakers this year have flexible-fuel engines, including most 2004 versions of the Ford Explorer and Taurus; Dodge Ram and Stratus; Chrysler Sebring; Chevrolet Suburban, Tahoe and Silverado; and GMC Sierra and Yukon, among other makes and models.
Flex-fuel vehicles typically have the letters "FFV" on the side or rear of the cars. Some carry a small logo of a winding road and a green leaf.
But consumers often are oblivious to the designations. If auto dealers don't mention the flexible capability and if buyers don't read their owners' manuals, flex-fuel remains a hidden concept.
Laverne Herrera of Denver said she is "sort of aware" of her 2000 Ford Taurus' flex-fuel capacity. Yet she has never fueled the vehicle with E85, and she said she would have no idea where to find an ethanol pump.
E85 is a fuel made of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. The new E85 pumps in Bennett, at the Roggen Farmers Elevator, make up the 10th ethanol fueling station in Colorado.
Three are in metro Denver; the others are in Brush, Colorado Springs, Greeley, Pueblo, Watkins and Yuma.
The fuel sells in a range of a few cents a gallon more than regular gasoline to several cents less, depending on location and competition. Ethanol burns more cleanly than gasoline and has higher octane ratings, but it produces slightly fewer miles per gallon than gasoline.
Lack of consumer and auto-dealer knowledge about flex-fuel, combined with relatively sparse fueling locations, have slowed the growth of ethanol fueling in Colorado.
Although the Colorado Corn Growers Association has no statistics on ethanol sales, the group said that only after the addition of several new fueling stations will annual sales surpass 1 million gallons - a fraction of the state's total gasoline volume.
"People just don't think of it very much," said Bill Barrow, president of the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association. "In this marketplace, it doesn't seem that important to drivers and dealers."
The Colorado state government has 404 flex-fuel vehicles in its fleet of 5,600, but the use of ethanol in the cars is "very minimal," said state fleet manager Scott Madsen, because of the small number of E85 stations.
Ethanol proponents said the proposed construction of an $84 million ethanol-processing plant in La Salle will boost local supplies, bring prices down and help induce demand for E85.