When you're learning about something new, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of relevant information available. This informative article should help you focus on the central points.

Once you begin to move beyond basic background information, you begin to realize that there's more to ethanol fuel than you may have first thought.

The use of ethanol blended fuel is on the rise in the United States, and particularly in Michigan where the use of such fuel has surpassed the 90 million gallon mark in 2002 alone.. Ethanol fuel is a mixture of conventional gasoline and ethanol. The result is a much cleaner burning fuel that is just as efficient as standard fuels. In Michigan, the mix is typically set at 10 percent ethanol to 90 percent gasoline. This mixture is optimized for a combination of clean exhaust and efficiency, and will function properly in any non-diesel car or truck.

Because ethanol fuels are made from renewable home-grown resources such as corn, they have proven beneficial to both the economy as well as the environment. U.S. production of ethanol has surpassed the billion gallon mark and currently produces 2.2 billion gallons.

The only commercial ethanol plant, Michigan Ethanol LLC in Caro, MI, started operations in November 2002 and continues to operate very well.

Michigan is proud of the fact that the Michigan Ethanol LLC plant has air pollution control equipment built-in which the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality believes meets the new national air quality standards for ethanol plants. It is one of the best plants in the nation that uses thermal oxidizers with its grain dryers.

Now might be a good time to write down the main points covered above. The act of putting it down on paper will help you remember what's important about ethanol fuel.

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