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Title: ENERGY AND ALTERNATIVE FUELS: RESOURCE PAPER
Accession Number: 00939739
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: The transportation sector currently accounts for approximately two-thirds of all U.S. petroleum use and roughly one-fourth of total U.S. energy consumption. Substitution of petroleum-based transportation fuels (gasoline and diesel) by nonpetroleum-based fuels (alternative fuels such as electricity, ethanol, hydrogen, liquefied petroleum gas, methanol, and natural gas) could be a key means of reducing the vulnerability of the U.S. transportation sector to future disruptions of petroleum supply. This paper discusses transportation energy trends, the potential for alternative fuels in transportation, and research needs. Basic challenges facing each alternative fuel are examined.
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Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 00939734
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Bechtold, RPagination: p. 67-74
Publication Date: 2002
Conference:
Environmental Research Needs in Transportation
Location:
Washington, D.C. ISBN: 030907715X
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Transportation (General)
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Mar 12 2003 12:00AM
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