US ethanol fuel statistics

United States is world's leading producer of ethanol. In 2008 United States produced 9 billion U.S. liquid gallons of ethanol fuel, and 10.6 billion U.S. liquid gallons of ethanol fuel in 2009. This represents around 55% of world's total ethanol production.

The ethanol market share in the U.S. gasoline supply was little less than 8% in 2009.

Portland, Oregon, was the first city in the United States that required all gasoline sold within city limits to contain at least 10% ethanol.

At the end of 2009 US had 189 ethanol distilleries in operation.

Most US ethanol is produced from corn. Current estimates say that around 36% of corn produced in 2010/11 will go to produce ethanol.

US ethanol industry currently employs around 210,000 people. The record year was 2005 when US ethanol industry created more than 150,000 new jobs.

There are currently around 2400 stations in the United States that sell E85 (the most common blend of ethanol).

It was estimated that around 21 percent of U.S. ethanol production capacity was shut down in 2009 because of financial crisis.

At the end of 2008 there were around eight million E85-compatible vehicles on U.S. roads.

Iowa is the nation's largest ethanol producer, followed by Nebraska and Illinois. Iowa represents 26% of nation's total ethanol production with around 3.5 billion gallons.

US ethanol industry has projected 45 billion litres of ethanol production for the year 2010.