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Assessing and Mitigating Future Impacts to the Federal Highway Trust Fund Such as Alternative Fuel Consumption NCHRP Project 19-05 CHAPTER 2 FINDINGS U.S. DOE's BASE-CASE PROJECTIONS Table 1 shows the observed and projected consumption of current fuel types, from the U.S.
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Assessing and Mitigating Future Impacts to the Federal Highway Trust Fund Such as Alternative Fuel Consumption NCHRP Project 19-05 • Diesel fuel is projected to increase by 15 billion gallons per year by 2010, a 52 percent increase over 2000. • Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)
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Assessing and Mitigating Future Impacts to the Federal Highway Trust Fund Such as Alternative Fuel Consumption NCHRP Project 19-05 In Table 2, the adjusted (pessimistic) case is used to predict ethanol-related revenues.
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Assessing and Mitigating Future Impacts to the Federal Highway Trust Fund Such as Alternative Fuel Consumption NCHRP Project 19-05 Table 3 Motor Fuel Excise Tax Rates and Their Disposition Disposition of Motor Fuel Tax (Cents Per Gallon) Highway Trust Fund Types of Fuel Tax Rate (Cents Per Gallon)
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Assessing and Mitigating Future Impacts to the Federal Highway Trust Fund Such as Alternative Fuel Consumption NCHRP Project 19-05 Ethanol and Gasohol Ethanol is a fuel derived from biomass (usually corn) , and has been promoted for highway usage in the United States for several reasons.
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Assessing and Mitigating Future Impacts to the Federal Highway Trust Fund Such as Alternative Fuel Consumption NCHRP Project 19-05 In addition to the fuels agreement, the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) provision requires a gradual and increasing percentage of renewable fuels, including ethanol, growing to five billion gallons per year by 2012 – current consumption is approximately 1.7 billion gallons per year.
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Assessing and Mitigating Future Impacts to the Federal Highway Trust Fund Such as Alternative Fuel Consumption NCHRP Project 19-05 Fuel Efficiency and Vehicle Fuel Economy The FHWA estimates that for every one mile-per-gallon increase in fuel efficiency, the Highway Trust Fund loses about $3.5 billion in revenue. After a sharp increase in LDV fuel economy between 1975 and 1985, there has been a gradual decrease between 1985 and 2001, while heavy-duty trucks (HDTs)
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Assessing and Mitigating Future Impacts to the Federal Highway Trust Fund Such as Alternative Fuel Consumption NCHRP Project 19-05 Any of these four possibilities would have the effect of raising fuel economy thereby reducing the flow of revenue to the Highway Trust Fund. The discussion below highlights the current prospects with regard to fuel economy for LDVs and heavy-duty vehicles, because these are somewhat separate markets with regard to existing and prospective fuels and technologies.
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Assessing and Mitigating Future Impacts to the Federal Highway Trust Fund Such as Alternative Fuel Consumption NCHRP Project 19-05 Although CAFÉ standards have not been raised at present, it appears likely that they will be altered if not actually raised in the future. When the CAFÉ standards were established, separate standards were set for cars and trucks as, at the time, trucks were believed to be used predominantly in industry or farming.
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Assessing and Mitigating Future Impacts to the Federal Highway Trust Fund Such as Alternative Fuel Consumption NCHRP Project 19-05 LDVs to the 27.5 mpg standard) would save 10 billion gallons per year (in total, not in addition to the 4.2)
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Assessing and Mitigating Future Impacts to the Federal Highway Trust Fund Such as Alternative Fuel Consumption NCHRP Project 19-05 similar improvements in their fuel economies. Heavy-heavies (more than 33,000 pounds)
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Assessing and Mitigating Future Impacts to the Federal Highway Trust Fund Such as Alternative Fuel Consumption NCHRP Project 19-05 has recently abandoned its electric vehicle the Th!
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Assessing and Mitigating Future Impacts to the Federal Highway Trust Fund Such as Alternative Fuel Consumption NCHRP Project 19-05 the high efficiency rates can make this retail price economically viable, but at these prices, it is implausible to see hydrogen being used in an internal combustion engine even in the 2010-2020 timeframe. Other Alternative Fuels Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)
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Assessing and Mitigating Future Impacts to the Federal Highway Trust Fund Such as Alternative Fuel Consumption NCHRP Project 19-05 Although diesel is taxed at a higher rate per gallon than gasoline, the higher fuel efficiency of diesel cars makes diesel conversion almost revenue neutral in comparison to gasoline vehicles. For every gallon of diesel, 21.44 cents goes to the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund, as opposed to 15.44 cents for gasoline, a 38 percent increase.
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Assessing and Mitigating Future Impacts to the Federal Highway Trust Fund Such as Alternative Fuel Consumption NCHRP Project 19-05 that shortfall single-handedly. Even in the extraordinary event that three-quarters of the Middle East's output was unavailable, industrialized countries have enough oil in their strategic reserves to make good that size shortfall for 30 days, and to replace a smaller shortfall for months – buying time to repair war-damaged infrastructure.
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