The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it would temporarily allow widespread sales of a higher ethanol gas blend in a move that they hope will tamp down consumer prices that have soared since the Iran war began.
The sale of E15 is typically discontinued in the summer because it can contribute to harmful air pollution.
Not all are convinced the move will substantially lower gas prices. E15 isn’t available in all states and some places don’t have the necessary infrastructure or enough of a supply of ethanol to ramp up use, said Kenneth Gillingham, a professor at the Yale School of the Environment who studies the impacts of transportation regulations on prices, emissions and consumer welfare.
This country will do anything except harvest the power from that big yellow ball in the sky.
This country is a fuckin death cult
The what? I’m not familiar with any yellow ball in the sky. You mean when corn gets really tall? That shit can make so much ethanol.
Hmmm? This is the way you get a gas car to run on sunshine.
Sun > corn > ethanol
Ethanol> H20 and C02 >corn
Technically everything runs on sunlight:
Sun>Algae>decomposition>Oil Sun>Tree>Fossilization>Coal Sun>Wind>Turbine>Electricity Sun>Panel>Electricity Sun>Corn>Fermentation>Etanol
then Ethanol,
Water and C02 taken up by new plant growth, to make new ethanol.
This was Henry Ford’s plan to have his first cars run an ethanol, which any farm could make. Then Standard Oil greased palms in Washington and made sure ethanol was illegal to make.
If this is what caused prohibition, I will die of laughter!
The Trump administration is going to wreck my engine, isn’t it.
E15 is perfectly safe for any car made after 2010. There is a reason it is widely offered in many states.
E15 is also significantly cheaper, like $0.30/gal cheaper. I pretty much only fill up at stations that have it.
Total BS my 2018 car’s manual says it can only run on E10.
Which car is this?
Subaru Outback with the 3.6
Huh, TIL.
Thank you.
Thats nice, if only i could afford a car made after 2010.
Well yeah, new car sales are way down so this is really a two birds, one stone situation for them
Just replaced a fuel hose that was 5 years old but had rotted though. It’s because of ethanol.
Nonsense. Cars have been using synthetic ethanol resistant hoses for over 17 years. Someone switched the hose for the wrong type.
I did the restoration.
Also all of the rubber seals on an EFI conversion went bad in the same amount of time. I didn’t touch them, they were installed by the vendor.
The problem is common on vehicles that don’t get driven much. Something happens with ethanol in the gas as it breaks down the fuel system rubber components.
This thread is predictable, fueled by oil and gas bot misinformation.
Brazil sells E100 fuel, and it’s $3.30 a gallon, cars run cooler, cleaner and last longer due to no carbon build up and carbon deposits in oil.
No cartel sets the price, and the fuel comes from biomass which captured the carbon during growth.
Go to any drag strip, ethanol dragsters are popular.
Also, these run on alcohol fuel and have for 60 years…
Ethanol can still cause carbon build up as it is made of carbon and at high temps can form carbon non polar byproducts
Talk about misinformation. While it is true that race cars use exotic fuel such as this, they also get rebuilt and refreshed regularly and they also are designed around using fuel like this. Its like saying my Camry can run nitro methane fuel just because the guys at the drag strip do it. Furthermore, it takes a shit ton of land and carbon to grow food crops just to turn it into fuel, while millions of people go hungry.
This isn’t a solution for passenger vehicles.
You do understand those are not the same engines we have here right?
Does E100 work in standard car engines that were designed for standard gas?
Absolutely not. You need to have an ethanol content sensor and a ECU calibrated to run ethonol. You can make more horse power with ethonol because it burns cooler, and also because you burn more of it (more fuel being sprayed in cylinders acts as a coolant to some extent) however there is a greater consumption (less mpg). Also why u must have sensors and calibrated ECU as you will effectively run real lean on pure ethonol if ur car has no idea what it’s burning. On ethonol you will get worse milage, although it’s cheaper per gallon so cheaper to run but less range per tank. Modern cars are ok on 10-15% ethonol, but if attracts water into your fuel so gas spoils faster and it gums up as it dries out and will fuck up and clog carbs. It’s also bad for old carb gaskets that aren’t ethonol safe. This is why u always get that nasty yellow shit clogging the jets in ur lawnmower carbs or bike carbs after it sits all winter. Where I live I try to use ethonol free gas in all my carbed vehicles because ethonol is the devil for carbs (which is why it only got popular with the introduction of fuel injection), and always dodge ethonol if you know the vehicle is going to sit for any more than a couple months.
Cars made after 2010 work well with E15. And many cars handle E85 as well. For E100 specifically, not sure.
Fun fact, this raises the price of corn, and other grains (less of it if they grow more corn) which is mostly used for animal feed. Fertilizer prices will be much higher if corn for ethanol “steals it” from other food.
