Government policies increasingly promote ethanol and other biofuels for security, air quality, and climate benefits …. One chapter of this dissertation develops a model that links the distribution of preferences for ethanol to aggregate … price responses and then estimates the model using data from a large number of retail ethanol stations. Ethanol demand is …

such as ethanol blends. The main result of the paper is that given the historical price patterns of conventional gasoline … and ethanol, switching to ethanol blends is an economically sound decision provided this does not decrease efficiency of …

The need to decrease the United States’ dependency on oil has pushed ethanol to the forefront of energy sources. In the … U.S., corn is used to make ethanol. Corn-based ethanol production has been profitable over the past few years, but there … in prices, which has given way to ethanol production by other sources of raw materials like sugarcane. Sugarcane ethanol …

The need to decrease the United States’ dependency on oil has pushed ethanol to the forefront of energy sources. In the … U.S., corn is used to make ethanol. Corn-based ethanol production has been profitable over the past few years, but there … in prices, which has given way to ethanol production by other sources of raw materials like sugarcane. Sugarcane ethanol …

natural gas or liquid petroleum gas or, alternatively, the use of natural-gas-based liquid fuels such as ethanol or methanol …