EPA approves blending up to 20% of Vertimass green gasoline

In California, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved registration for blending up to 20% of Vertimass green gasoline with conventional gasoline. This new renewable gasoline product, VertiGas20, is made from renewable ethanol by novel Vertimass Consolidated Alcohol Deoxygenation and Oligomerization (CADO) technology and can substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing cars and other gasoline powered engines.

VertiGas20 is a new generation of fuel which can be used in current gasoline vehicles (approximately 340 million in the U.S. alone) without any engine modifications. The renewable component in VertiGas20 comes from biomass derived ethanol, potentially increasing ethanol demand five-fold from the current 14 billion gallons to 70 billion gallons in U.S. alone. This greater demand will create hundreds of new jobs in the ethanol production industry. Since every gallon reduction in fossil fuel use reduces carbon dioxide (CO2) emission by about 20 pounds, a dramatic reduction in greenhouse gases is possible through eliminating approximately 560 billion pounds of new CO2 from accumulating in the atmosphere every year.