Our Energy Opportunity Transportation Fuel Consumption In 2010, the transportation sector of the United States consumed 27,425 trillion BTUs of fuel, 95.996% of which were from fossil fuels.1 The biomass resources identified by Department of Energy’s Billion Ton Study (2011) 2 could be used to replace approximately 30 percent of the nation’s current petroleum consumption with clean, renewable biofuels.
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67.19% Foreign Oil
Transitioning to renewable biofuels keeps energy spending closer to home.
In 2010, the United States imported approximately 3.445 billion barrels of oil from foreign countries, 3,4 approximately 51% of U.S. consumption. O
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In 2010, the United States imported 547,864,671,000 liters of oil.4 That’s enough to fill the Empire State Building6 523 times.
Greenhouse Gases In comparison to gasoline, ethanol made from cellulose and produced with power generated from biomass byproducts can result in an 86 percent reduction in greenhouse 19% 86% gas emissions. 5 Reduction Reduction
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http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/showtext.cfm?t=ptb0201e https://bioenergykdf.net/content/billiontonupdate 3 http://www.eia.gov/energy_in_brief/foreign_oil_dependence.cfm
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Cellulosic Ethanol
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=36&t=6 http://www1.eere.energy.gov/biomass/ethanol_myths_facts.html 6 http://www.newyorktransportation.com/info/empirefact2.html
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