{"id":475517,"date":"2010-03-26T12:11:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T16:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2010-03-26T12:11:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T16:11:27","slug":"tires-made-from-renewable-materials-commercially-possible-within-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/475517","title":{"rendered":"Tires Made From Renewable Materials Commercially Possible Within 5 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6325 aligncenter\" title=\"Tires\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/03\/Tires.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are about 1 billion tires made each year; each and every one of them uses 7 gallons of crude oil to produce. Although 7 billion gallons is just a small blip (0.5%) of the overall global annual use of crude oil (<a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200809180578.html\" >~1.3 trillion gallons<\/a>), figuring out a way to make tires from something other than crude oil will, nonetheless, clearly help us in our goal to a sustainable transportation future.<\/p>\n<p>At the American Chemical Society Meeting in San Francisco yesterday, Joseph McAuliffe,\u00a0a scientist from biotech company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genencor.com\" >Genencor<\/a>, announced that he and his team have discovered a method to produce one of the key ingredients for tires from sugars derived from sugarcane, corn, corn cobs, switchgrass and\/or other biomass.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/03\/26\/tires-made-from-renewable-materials-commercially-possible-within-5-years\/#more-6323\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=ou1zuXyUOls:kEgpk2f8WGU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=ou1zuXyUOls:kEgpk2f8WGU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=ou1zuXyUOls:kEgpk2f8WGU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=ou1zuXyUOls:kEgpk2f8WGU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=ou1zuXyUOls:kEgpk2f8WGU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=ou1zuXyUOls:kEgpk2f8WGU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=ou1zuXyUOls:kEgpk2f8WGU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=ou1zuXyUOls:kEgpk2f8WGU:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/ou1zuXyUOls\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are about 1 billion tires made each year; each and every one of them uses 7 gallons of crude oil to produce. Although 7 billion gallons is just a small blip (0.5%) of the overall global annual use of crude oil (~1.3 trillion gallons), figuring out a way to make tires from something other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}