Scatter Shot Reform
An Explosion of Transport Fuel Pathways by Sander Cohan
SUMMARY: For nearly a century, the dominance of gasoline and diesel in the transport fuels market has remained relatively unchallenged. As motor transport has spread with economic development, these two products of the petroleum refining industry have driven global demand for petroleum. In an upcoming study entitled, Scatter Shot Reform: Fuel Engine Pathways for Automotive Transportation, ESAI analyzes how the status quo is changing through a haphazard effort at transport fuel reform. Competing and sometimes conflicting reform will result in a vastly different transport fuels market. Responding to developments in technology, changing attitudes towards environmental sustainability, and the tightening of global supply and demand markets for petroleum and petroleum products, a process of market transformation has begun. In addition to the complication and expansion of gasoline and diesel markets to include new formulations and specifications, new transportation fuel and automotive technology pathways are emerging. Their emergence has created the beginnings of a sea change in transportation fuel markets.