TRANSPORTATION ENERGY DATA BOOK: EDITION 22 - Center for ...

Oxygenates are blended with gasoline to be used in conventional vehicles. The amount of oxygenate use dwarfs
the alternative fuel use. Gasoline-equivalent gallons are used in this table to allow comparisons of different fuel
types.
Table 2.3
Alternative Fuel and Oxygenate Consumption, 1992–2001
(thousand gasoline–equivalent gallons)
Alternative fuel 1992 1995 1998 1999 2000 2001 a
a Based on plans or projections.
b Consumption includes gasoline portion of the mixture.
c Vehicle consumption only; does not include power plant inputs.
d Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether. This category includes a very small amount of other ethers, primarily
Tertiary Amyl Methyl Ether (TAME) and Ethyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (ETBE).
TRANSPORTATION ENERGY DATA BOOK: EDITION 22—2002
2001
Percentage
Liquified petroleum 208,142 232,701 241,583 242,141 242,695 243,196 5.6%
Compressed natural 16,823 35,162 73,251 86,286 97,568 107,476 2.5%
Liquified natural gas 585 2,759 5,343 5,828 6,847 7,566 0.2%
M85 b 1,069 2,023 1,212 1,073 996 918 0.0%
M100 2,547 2,150 449 447 437 406 0.0%
E85 b
21 190 1,727 2,075 3,344 4,575 0.0%
E95 b 85 995 59 59 54 51 0.0%
Electricity c
359 663 1,202 1,431 1,819 2,143 0.0%
Subtotal 229,631 276,643 324,826 339,340 353,760 366,331 8.4%
Oxygenates
MTBE d 1,175,000 2,691,200 2,903,400 3,331,000 3,104,200 2,937,500 67.2%
Ethanol in gasohol 701,000 910,700 889,500 956,900 1,011,800 1,066,000 24.4%
Total 2,105,631 3,878,543 4,117,726 4,627,240 4,469,760 4,369,831 100.0%
Source:
U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Alternatives to Traditional Transportation Fuels,
1999, Washington, DC, 2000, web site www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/alternate/page/datatables/atf1-
13_00.html, Table 10. (Additional resources: www.eia.doe.gov)
Note:
These data were released in October 1999. Please check the source web site for updates which were not available
when this document went to press.
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