期刊名称：Journal of Petroleum & Environmental Biotechnology
电子版ISSN：2157-7463
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：7
页码：1-1
DOI：10.4172/2157-7463.1000e115
语种：English
出版社：OMICS International
摘要：Sugarcane-based ethanol has been the major automobile fuel in Brazil for over three decades due to the abundant and renewable production of cane sugar. A 10% blend of corn starch-based ethanol with gasoline, also known as E10 or gasohol, is used in most cars running on US roads today. Legislation like the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 has led to an aggressive expansion of starch to ethanol production in the US, growing from 175 million gallons in 1980 to 13.9 billion gallons in 2011 (http://www.ethanolrfa.org).
