| E-15 is coming [message #165811] |
Mon, 09 April 2012 07:59  |
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Matt Colie
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Registered: March 2007
Location: S.E. Michigan
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This morning I read the announcement that the EPA has approved E-15 as fuel for vehicles 2001 and newer. It is fortunately only approved for those vehicles and pumps dispensing E-15 are supposed to be clearly marked as such. We should be able to avoid it when fueling coaches.
This is going to be interesting. It will be a bigger mess than anyone can imagine. The report from the Automobile Manufactures Association was pretty clear that even most 2001 and newer vehicles not certified as Flex-Fuel will have trouble with E-15. The saving grace is that this will take some time to implement. This is not a clean-air issue. It is driven by the renewable fuels legislation.
With the subsidy for ethanol gone, it is now (even at the current price level) more expensive than petroleum fuel. That is why on the recent run to Shawnee, I found many places where the alcohol content was five or less. (Yes, this level of determination is possible with a modification of the KenB analysis.)
There is this, "Corn ethanol is extremely dirty," Michal Rosenoer, biofuels manager for Friends of the Earth, said in heralding the tax credit's demise. "It leads to more climate pollution than conventional gasoline, and it causes deforestation as well as agricultural runoff that pollutes our water."
Links:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/04/unelected_epa_bureaucrats_approve_e15_ethanol.html
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/29/9804028-6-billion-a-year-ethanol-subsidy-dies-but-wait-theres-more
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
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