Plant-Derived Gasoline

The so called "green" gasoline is chemically derived from corn and other grains or from cellulose found in tough, woody parts of plants. Unlike most other biofuel, this new form of gasoline requires no change in your car’s engine. The National Science Foundation has aided in several projects developing green gasoline. These projects found that by just a simple difference in the creation process you can produce gasoline components out of wood chips and other plant refuse. Doing so involves a chemical agent called catalysts which reformulates plant sugars into energy packed molecules. Making hydrocarbons from plat materials is more efficient than making ethanol. This is because hydrocarbons separate themselves from water automatically, compared to ethanol which requires energy-intensive distillation. This efficiency will translate into lower costs estimated at 20% lower than a gallon of ethanol produced from corn.