gasohol
IPA: gˈæsʌhɔɫ
noun
- gasoline mixed with ethyl alcohol (ethanol).
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Examples of "gasohol" in Sentences
- Single cell protein and gasohol projects.
- "gasohol" and can also be blended to give satisfactory performance in machinery on the farm.
- In the United States, the use of alcohol in gasoline-ethanol mixtures, known as "gasohol," is subsidized.
- Gasoline additives such as gasohol were developed at a time when cars had carburetors that were often adjusted too rich, resulting in incomplete combustion and pollution.
- This may not be decisive, but it certainly could have as big of an impact as other proposals to reduce import dependence, like gasohol (a mixture of motor gasoline and ethanol from corn).
- We sent Congress incentives for biomass and gasohol, a plan to streamline the licensing of nuclear power plants, additional incentives for solar power, and, later, a proposal for a synthetic-fuels corporation.
- Ethanol then called "gasohol" first burst onto the charity scene during the 1970s energy crisis when Jimmy Carter and a Democrat-controlled Congress were eager to subsidize anything claimed to be an oil substitute.
- Herendeen argued that net energy analysis is particularly important for highly touted technologies such as gasohol and the solar power satellite which are subsidized with tax dollars and do appear to be near the energy break-even point.
- When corn farmers began pushing "gasohol" as a potential new market in the late 1970's and early 1980's, state governments initiated rudimentary support measures, such as using it in some state fleet vehicles when available, or exempting it from state gas taxes.