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EMD-80-73 1 (1980-06-03)

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BY TH-LE COMPTROLLER GENERAL

Report To The Honorable Max Baucus

United States Senate




9Ol H UN TED STATES


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Potentiali

A Motor Vehicle Fuel




GAO reviewed selected aspects of ethyl alco-
hol's (ethanol's) potential for widespread use
as a motor vehicle fuel and focused on Fed-
eral and other efforts to assess that potential.

GAO found that, even considering constraints
on the availability of feedstocks for producing
ethanol, it appears entirely feasible for the
Nation's vehicle fleet to be operating on a 10-
percent ethanol, 90-percent gasoline blend
(gasohol) by the year 2000. A national gas-
ohol program could cut U.S. oil imports by
260 million barrels a year at a savings of over
$8 billion, based on current prices for im-
ported oil.

The Department of Energy has taken steps to
pull together previously fragmented efforts,
but it is too early to evaluate how success-
ful those steps will be. Although much oil
industry skepticism remains over ethanol's
potential as a widely used motor vehicle fuel,                  I
many major oil companies are now marketing
gasohol and removing marketing barriers.

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                                                                       EMD-80-73
                                                                     JUNE 3, 1980

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