Hydrolysis of Cellulose Wastes: Feasibility of Fuel Ethanol as Alternative to Gasoline from Petroleum as a Usable Energy Source in Nigeria

Ohia, Godwin Nwafor; Ohia, Nnaemeka Princewill; Ekwueme, Stanley Toochukwu; Nwankwo, Ifeanyi Valerian

doi:10.11648/j.pse.20200401.12

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“…Although several papers have describe the advantages and disadvantages of using ethanol as fuel (e.g. Hill et al, 2006;Balat & Balat, 2009;Ohia et al, 2020), such investigations are limited to a biochemical perspective. Furthermore, no statistical techniques were used to validate their hypotheses.…”

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Investigating the Nexus Between Fuel Ethanol and Co2 Emissions. A Panel Smooth Transition Regression Approach

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Dinu

2020

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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In this paper, we fill the gap in the literature by identifying a negative relationship between fuel ethanol consumption and CO2 emissions, building on a sample of 17 European countries covering seven years, from 2010 to 2016. Based on a Panel Smooth Transition Regression approach we show that countries with high levels of income inequality have difficulties in avoiding environmental degradation by promoting policies and regulations for more intense use of biofuels. Furthermore, we bring strong empirical evidence suggesting that biofuels could be an alternative in the future to reducing CO2 emissions. In our opinion, this non-linear analysis could provide the scientific basis for authorities, especially the European Commission to promote environmental policies to a specific country with different levels of carbon emissions rather than to the entire group.

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