As more and more ethanol is introduced to the motor-fuel supply chain, handlers need to be aware of potential conditions like “phase separation.”
While a number of organizational and operational hurdles still need to be cleared before ethanol reaches its full potential as a home-grown member of the nation’s motor-fuel supply, there’s no denying that the numbers don’t lie when assessing the alternative fuel’s future. According to figures supplied by the American Coalition of Ethanol, in 2007, actual ethanol production topped 6.2 billion gallons, up from less than 5 billion gallons in 2006 and a nearly fourfold increase from the 1.63 gallons produced as recently as 2000.
