Oil Industry Financed Study Questions Ease Of Raising Ethanol Blends

Raising the amount of ethanol in gasoline blends would be much more complicated than ethanol supporters claim, according to the authors of a study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute. Introducing higher blends of ethanol into gasoline sold at pumps across the U.S. would require changes in federal and state fuel-blending requirements, the distribution system of pipelines, tanks and pumps and labeling requirements, said analysts at Sierra Research who completed the study.