Now Playing: Oil Spill Reignites Argument for Flex Fuels

ADDED: 6/30/2010 at 6:02 AM

As the largest oil spill in U.S. history continues to leak into the Gulf of Mexico, the argument for domestically produced alternative fuels, like ethanol (E85), is back on. Manufacturing plants continue to research and develop biofuels from a variety of unique sources. In fact, scientists are now converting materials like grass and woodchips into cleaner burning biofuel at a similar cost to that of producing a gallon of gasoline.Brazil leads the way in flex-fuel vehicle production.

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