In the U.S., the regulatory approach to automobile fuel choices has consisted almost exclusively of mandated changes in autos and fuel availability. This contrasts with Europe, where di®erential taxes and fees have been used to encourage the use of unleaded gasoline and diesel fuel. I use data for 48 states from 1980 to 1989 to estimate the e®ect of price di®erences between leaded and unleaded ...

In a gasoline-contaminated site in Düsseldorf, Germany a two-year monitoring program was carried out to determine the presence, behavior, and fate of 12 gasoline additives in a total of 96 samples from 14 groundwater wells. The origin of contamination was suspected to be a gasoline spill at a gas station. Target compounds were methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE), its main degradation products, tert-...

The detection of adulteration of fuels and its use in criminal scenes like arson has a high interest in forensic investigations. In this work, a method based on gas chromatography (GC) and neural networks (NN) has been developed and applied to the identification and discrimination of brands of fuels such as gasoline and diesel without the necessity to determine the composition of the samples. T...

Current interest in the shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has renewed the debate about the safety of shipping large volumes of flammable fuels. The size of a spreading pool following a release of LNG from an LNG tank ship has been the subject of numerous papers and studies dating back to the mid-1970s. Several papers have presented idealized views of how the LNG would be released and spre...

technologies (a-c). The impacts of technologies with high CH4 emissions change significantly over time. The impact of CNG is initially lower than that of gasoline but exceeds this impact in 1-2 decades using the ICI (2-3 decades under a low leakage scenario). The impact of algae biodiesel (with methane leakage from a biodigester) exceeds that of corn ethanol in approximately 2-4 decades using t...