One acre of corn can produce enough ethanol to run a car for some 72,000 miles on E-10 Unleaded.
For every barrel of ethanol produced, 1.2 barrels of petroleum are displaced.
In 2008, U.S. ethanol production displaced the equivalent of 330,000 barrels of imported crude oil per day—more than one large oil tanker per week.
The use of E-10 Unleaded (10 percent ethanol/90 percent ordinary unleaded gasoline) is approved for use by every major automaker in the world.
One bushel of corn yields about 2.8 gallons of ethanol.
A typical 40 million gallon ethanol plant creates 32 full-time jobs and generates an additional $1.2 million in tax revenue for a community.
Ethanol production results in a net energy gain—producing 67 percent more energy than it takes to grow and process the corn into ethanol.
Ethanol production consumed about 20 percent of the nation’s total corn supply in 2007—some 3.0 billion bushels.
Ethanol production in the U.S. hit a record 6.5 billion gallons in 2007—nearly double the amount produced in 2004.
There are some 7 million “flexible fuel” vehicles on America ’s highways that can run on up to 85 percent ethanol (E85).
A flexible fuel vehicle (FFV) can run on any combination of gasoline and ethanol up to 85 percent ethanol. You can fill up with E85 one time, E-10 Unleaded the next and ordinary unleaded the next—and a computer in the fuel system automatically adjusts for the level of ethanol in the fuel mix.
