ethanol

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That pushes refineries near bankruptcy and compels them to plead for exemptions, which anger the ethanol lobby.

From The Wall Street Journal

Researchers have also estimated how much each fruit species contributes to the overall diet at each site, which allowed the Berkeley team to calculate an average daily intake of ethanol from food.

From Science Daily

Biofuels such as ethanol are often touted as a replacement for fossil fuels, but they can lead to deforestation as demand increases for the crop to burn to make the fuel.

From BBC

One of the compounds, acetic acid, had never before been definitively observed in space ice, while the others -- ethanol, methyl formate, and acetaldehyde -- were detected in ices outside the Milky Way for the first time.

From Science Daily

One day Charlie found himself intrigued by the market for ethanol futures.

From Literature