Gasoline could go from 10% ethanol up to 20%

WASHINGTON

Studies by the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State University at Mankato suggest that ordinary vehicles could burn a mix of 20% ethanol, called E20, as routinely and harmlessly as they now burn E10. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is to announce the study results at a conference here today.

“We see E20 not exactly as bypassing E85, but supplementing it,” says Gene Hugoson, Minnesota agriculture commissioner.