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Carmakers Push More Use Of Alternative FuelsThe chief executives of United States automakers urged President Bush yesterday to back incentives to bring ethanol and biodiesel to more pumps as the companies bolster output of so-called flex-fuel vehicles. By 2012, half the vehicles made by General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler, a unit of DaimlerChrysler, could be able to run on biodiesel or E85, a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline, the executives said in a statement. Yesterdays meeting with Mr. Bush in Washington was the second time in four months that Rick Wagoner of G.M., Alan R. Mulally of Ford and Thomas W. LaSorda of Chrysler pressed the president to expand access to biofuels. The executives prefer that option over stricter fuel-economy standards as a way to cut American oil use. If the goal is to reduce oil imports and improve the environment, the opportunity is first of all in ethanol, biodiesel, Mr. Wagoner told reporters after the meeting. The executives spent very little time talking about mileage rules, he said. The United States has more than six million flex-fuel vehicles, but the nations 170,000 gas stations have only 2,000 pumps for E85 or biodiesel, they said. We are willing to lead the way, the automakers statement said. But we need government and fuel providers to increase infrastructure before we can make a meaningful impact. Mr. Bush did not commit publicly on any biofuel incentives. American producers of ethanol, made chiefly from corn, now receive a tax credit of 51 cents a gallon. They also benefit from a 54-cent tariff on each gallon of imported ethanol. Automakers that build flex-fuel vehicles get a credit letting them increase their fleets average fuel economy. Putting an E85 outlet within five miles of most American motorists would require at least 20,000 pumps, said Phil Lampert, executive director of the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition in Jefferson City, Mo. The president has called for a 20 percent cut in American oil consumption in 10 years, three-fourths of that from using alternative fuels, and the rest from better vehicle fuel economy. Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationA Little Mexican Cafe, Built on Persistence...Congress to Take Up Net’s Future... Doctors Fault Designers? Stance Over Thin Models... Few Expect a Panacea in a Rate Cut by the Fed... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - Carmakers Push More Use Of Alternative Fuels |
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