LINCOLN- A new study indicating that higher ethanol blends can be used in conventional vehicles could be a boon to corn farmers and the state's $5 billion ethanol industry. If only% of the 1.7 million vehicles in the state switched to E-30, it would increase demand by 18.5 million gallons a year.

About 97% of the gasoline sold in the U.S. now contains some ethanol. A biomolecular engineering professor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln says that if 10% of the state's vehicles switched to E-30, greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by 64,000 tons a year. However, increased production of ethanol would increase carbon emissions from ethanol plants. The process to take action to make it legal to use E-30 in non flex-fuel vehicles could take two years.

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