Alternative Fuels and Renewables

To help meet future U.S. energy demand growth and to diversify the U.S. energy portfolio, U.S. oil and gas companies invested an estimated $121.3 billion from 2000 through 2007 on emerging energy technologies in the North American market.

Within the next few years, the Renewable Fuels Standards will require more ethanol than can be physically blended into gasoline.

A “boutique fuel” is a specialized fuel formulation that is unique to a particular market, usually by virtue of federal, state or local laws, and that cannot be obtained from other markets in the same regional distribution system.