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GoE For The Earth!
- Ethanol contains 35 percent oxygen, which means it burns cleaner, reduces the potency of toxic additives and reduces harmful tailpipe emissions.
- Ethanol reduces tailpipe carbon monoxide emissions by as much as 30 percent.
- Ethanol reduces exhaust VOC (volatile organic compounds) emissions by 12 percent.
- Ethanol reduces toxic emissions by 30 percent.
- Ethanol reduces particulate matter emissions by more than 25 percent. Particulate matter has been found to penetrate deeply into human lungs.
- Using ethanol can curb the net emission of greenhouse gases by as much as 39 percent to 46 percent.
- The Argonne National Laboratory has demonstrated that using ethanol produces 32 percent fewer emissions of greenhouse gases than gasoline for the same distance traveled.
