Last Friday the Biden administration raised the mandatory amount of biofuel, specifically ethanol, that must be blended within the U.S. gasoline supply. The previous amount of 10% (summer blend) was raised to a year-round 15% (waiver) by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This is likely to lead to two sets of bigger issues, less food and higher gas prices.
♦ First issue. – The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is a government mandate, passed in 2005 and expanded in 2007, that requires growing volumes of biofuels to be blended into U.S. transportation fuels like gasoline and diesel every year. Approximately 40 percent of corn grown in the U.S. is used for ethanol. Raising the amount of ethanol required in gasoline will result in the need for more biofuel (corn). With farming costs and outputs already under pressure this could be problematic.
♦ Second issue – The EPA enforces the biofuel standard by requiring refineries to submit purchase credits (known as Renewable Identification Numbers, or RINs) to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proving the purchases. This enforcement requirement sets up a system where the RIN credits are bought and sold by small refineries who do not have the infrastructure to do the blending process. They purchase second-hand RIN credits from parties that blended or imported biofuels directly. This sets up a secondary income stream, a trading market for the larger oil companies, refineries and importers.
The RIN credit trading platform is similar to what we might expect to see if the ‘Carbon Trading’ scheme was ever put into place. However, now that summer biofuel requirements for blended gasoline have gone from 10% to 15%, the price of the RIN credits will likely jump. This will cost refineries billions in additional expenses,…. which will mean the cost of the gasoline from the refineries will increase,….. which will mean the cost of the gasoline at the pump will go higher.
The EPA theory is that RIN credits should be expensive thereby forcing all oil refineries to invest in infrastructure that makes the blended fuel. All of the infrastructure from the refinery to the gas station would need to be modified to facilitate the new 15% RFS standard. Again, higher prices at the pumps as a result of oil companies and refineries needing to spend billions on upgrades. Which brings us to issue number three.
♦ Third Issue – “Ethanol is a valuable source of octane in finished gasoline, but it is chemically different than petroleum gasoline and cannot be used in concentrations above 10 percent in small engines — like outboard boat motors, motorcycles, lawnmowers, generators or chain saws — or in any cars made before 2001. Complicating matters further, most cars on the road today still aren’t warrantied to run on gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol. Retail stations also must have compatible infrastructure in order to sell gasoline with higher ethanol blends.” This issue is known within the industry as “The Blend Wall.”
The net result of Joe Biden’s EPA raising the mandatory amount of biofuel that must be present in the U.S. gas supply is this:
(1) Less food as more corn is needed for ethanol.
(2) Higher prices for finished and blended gasoline.
(3) Vehicle engines breaking down at a much higher rate.
The predictable Biden outcome is the absolute worst scenario for the middle-class.
ABC Article on the EPA change HERE.
AFPM Background Information HERE.
WASHINGTON – “The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers group, which represents refineries, called the 2022 figure “bewildering and contrary to the administration’s claims to be doing everything in their power to provide relief to consumers.” The group said unachievable mandates will increase fuel production costs and keep consumer prices high.” (more)
ah, but you can’t complain that these criminals stole the election from us. the illigitimate O’biden group is on an active mission to destroy the United States of America, so they can install communism over the chaos.
Maybe if we vote for M Pence everything will be all better. Ya think?
Mike Pence impart of the problem.
Mike Pence belongs on a pike’s peak…Torso is optional
Not just communism but fascism as well.
The only practical difference between communism and fascism is the level of political control on business. Less in fascism than communism.
True Communism is incompatible with true fascism. They are different end expressions of totalitarian Marxist government implementations. Their economic control of the means of production are defined differently. Communism controls production by government ownership of all goods and services. Fascism does it by regulation of all goods and services and possible joint ownership of corporations. Communism on any scale larger than a small tribal existence is disastrous and failure is assured. Fascism is more efficient in large scale existences and that is why countrywide Communism most often evolves into a facade of Communism with an actual functioning core of Fascism. Examples would be USSR, China, Cuba etc.
Put the crack pipe down.
Not a perffect solution, but better. Hold your nose and vote.
I won’t be voting for M Pence. I agree on how much damage old joe’s policies are hurting the middle class and poor citizens in America. And he can’t figure out why his poll numbers continue sliding downward? He really is out of his mind. Find a mirror old joe, there you’ll find who is causing all this chaos and hurt.
It’s the big eared Kenyan.
when is this supposed to go into effect? so they are going to make us search for bootleg gasoline so our vehicles dont break down? What about people who own boats? How can this be done without a lawsuit stopping it?!?! Please someone explain!
For now, it appears that it is simply a regulatory change to ALLOW stations that sell E-15 in the winter to sell it all year. The reporting has been a mess and the ABC story implies a mandate. Murray in Nashville was on this on page 3.
There is no EPA mandate requiring 15% ethanol-blended gas.
I believe that misapprehension may well be the result of the blending…of two news stories:
1. The period during which E85 (15% ethanol gas) may be sold has been extended through the summer. (Its sale had previously been restricted during the hottest months over pollution concerns.)
2. On Fri., June 3, the EPA did issue a mandate around the number “15,”–but it was in billions of gallons, not the % of ethanol that must be blended into gas.
Under the RFS, EPA sets certain annual total amounts of biofuels that must be added to gas; it does not mandate the blend ratio.
Borrowing from an old law professor’s phrase: the author’s inductive leap from gallons to per cent was a bit too long.
“Misapprehension “ now that’s funny. You could get a job in the Joebama regime.
No, misapprehension is a real word. I can’t blame you, though; most of their jargon words that we’re supposed to accept as truth… aren’t.
E85 is 85% alcohol. E15 is 15%.
Correction noted.
You can edit your earlier comment to correct the error.
The law is simply the will of the Party, comrade. If you think they’re two different things, well, they’ll help you go and plant Lysenko’s Miracle Wheat in Siberia.
Welcome to communism
Thank God I live right across the line from Missouri, where I can buy no-ethanol gasoline. Saved my lawn mower too.
I was wondering why my Zero Turn lawn mower motor quit running last week. It has been reliable and well maintained for 3 years now. FJB
If it is not starting, probably the solenoid. Just had to change mine out.
You cannot leave fuel in the carburetor float bowl. The ethanol in the fuel will suck moisture out of the air and rust out the bottom of the float bowl. The rust will clog the jets and your engine won’t run.
The boating industry discovered this years ago. Marine mechanics are making $ hand over fist fixing outboard motors every season.
I get around this issue with my outboard motor with the following procedure when I flush the engine out with fresh water, before putting it into storage:
This kind of thing might be possible with a lawn mower engine, but you would have to add a valve to shut off the fuel supply between the tank and the carb.
You can also add a water absorbing additive to the fuel tank, but this is likely not going to work, if you store the lawnmower, unused over winter. A better option is to drain the tank and run the mower until it stops, ensuring there is no fuel in the carb float bowl.
i have an old fashioned reel mower with 7 blades that you can push with one hand and no gas go brandon
On some small engines the carb bowl still contains a small amount of fuel even after the engine has been run out of fuel. This residual amount can gum up and wreak havoc the following operating season. As for a water absorbing additive, that’s the problem. The ethanol already in the fuel holds water. Best bet is to remove most of the ethanol in the fuel that will be in the system during storage (plenty of videos available on how to do this) and use a fuel stabilizing additive to extend the shelf life of the gas.
What about fuel injection on motors?
EFI motors are no problem, as there’s no float bowl. Also, because EFI is a modern technology fitted to engines after the ethanol mandates went in to effect, they’re designed and built to handle the ethanol laced fuel.
Good one. Another option is to install an in-line fuel filter (not a bads idea, anyway) up-tar the carburetor with an extra-long rubber line (just 2 – 3 ” or so) that can be disconnected or pinched off to let the engine expire between periods of use. Seasonal vehicles, vehicles unsed only intermittently, all might benefit.
Or use non-ethanol fuel in your small engines.
Problem solved
We use a gas/diesel treatment you put into the fuel tank….Lucas!!!!
10% ethanol reeks havoc on OPE. 15% will ruin small engines.
I run nothing but ethanol-free RV gas in my mower and other small engines – even 10% ethanol is bad for them. RV gas is sold at many gas stations, especially those frequented by boaters. If the pumps around here go to 15% ethanol I’ll add RV gas to the tanks in my cars, about a gallon of RV gas to two gallons of Biden gas. RV gas costs more per gallon but a lot less per engine.
Ethanol free gas is available at a lot of stations in Florida.
I think these Bidenites are overplaying the puny hand they think they have. I’m sure they think they are really smart and that they’ve got this. I ain’t so sure. It may just be that when the flag goes up, they may find themselves surrounded
Don’t be fooled! This is NOT our President! It’s a fraudulent imposter! He was not voted into office fairly.
Like everything else this enemy regime has done, this is designed to HURT Americans and destroy our nation!
Not one policy implemented by the Commie occupiers has been for the good of the USA!
It’s just another phase of the ongoing attack from within!
chumpy is not our president either…that traitor calls himself “the father of the vaccine” that has killed hundred of thousdands. They both work together.
Time to fill the powder horns & mold some musket balls.
EXACTLY like cash for clunkers. These dems are a threat to the Republic
Say no now. Same for refineries, farmers, and all the people. These are features, not complications of plans. they intend to further subjugate you, and promptly. Fedel Castro predicted disaster for poor people and higher corn prices when ethanol was first produced from corn. Rise up.
Given this…anybody know of an additive that can be used upon fill-up?
Did this when I inherited my Grandmothers 64 Cadillac about 10 years ago…used a lead additive since all cars back then used lead gasoline in order to make it run smooth.
Now looking for something for late model cars. Goldmine for whoever makes it.
You don’t need the lead additive. If you want to feed it something every other tankful use STARTRON for storage(2.5 years) and to counteract the ethanol effects.
A ’64 should have hard valve seats that will not wear from using unleaded gas. Only thing I would do is run 93 octane in it and let ‘er eat.
Question pertained to late model cars…within the last few years if there is anything that could be added to counteract the 15% increase from 10%?. Already use super now…just want to make sure the engine will not be damaged.
Is STP still in business?
Obviously they want gasoline engines to quit…need to counteract that.
It’s all by design.
They are not going to all E15. This rule only lets them sell E15 during the summer months, where as they couldn’t before because of the added smog and pollution. You will still be able to get E10. If your area doesn’t have E15 at the stations now they won’t have them later. THIS IS NOT A MANDATE TO CHANGE ALL GAS FROM E10 to E15.
Gotcha…thanks…
Will that work for an ’85 350 in my Silverado?
Lucas Oil Fuel Treatment works well to lubricate fuel system parts damaged by ethanol.
I think you can buy it on Amazon. Lucas Fuel Treatment should definitely be used in vehicles that require leaded fuel because it replaces the benefits of lead in gasoline without causing harmful emissions.
Lucas Oil also produces an ethanol treatment that is excellent.
I just finished a restoration of a 74 Firebird Formula 400 and ethanol would ruin it. For it, I use Driven Oil Carb Defender to protect it.
More like to stand us so we can’t hide, drive, or comply
Furthering
risks ofguarantees of famine for the world, just as our stupid rape the land to fuel our cars forced famine on Africa not long ago.Will the American people not put a stop to this tyranny?
We Patriots have another chance to do so, come the midterms. Vote all Dems out of power and repeat the same in 2024.
ethanol is the most energy expensive fuel in the world. in terms of energy density, it costs more to produce than ANY OTHER FORM OF ENERGY.
and it happens to create two forms of carbon problems. (corn requires quite a bit of fertilizer…fertilizer is a oil based chemical..and soil degradation).
joe malarkey is literally burning the world down.
Topsoil should be considered the most precious non-renewable resource on the planet.
I dream of ways to create it, but seem to be in a distinct minority in that regard, and it wouldn’t be easy.
Still, survival here, and out there, will someday depend upon it I’m sure.
A farm I manage (1400 acres, every single day, we compost to renew our soil.) we don’t do this because it makes our feeling happy. It’s essential and economically smart. The same farm that has never seen a bag of fertilizer for over 300 years.
Yes, we own chickens, cows, pigs, ducks, geese, goats and we never throw “away” by waste food. Everything goes to compost. We literally have two small “mountains”
I had to learn these things. Fortunately it was passed down for several generations and MANY local families who help run the farm.
I got a third of an acre of poisoned sub-soil and rock!
Too broken to mess with it as I wish to, but instinctually can’t bear to discard anything that could feed soil or chickens.
Are you familiar with remineralization? Read about it not long ago, between that and bio-char I bet a lot of sub-standard soils could be remediated.
3-Steps to Rapid Soil Regeneration Part 1: Finding the Beneficial Microbes in your Location
You might find this very interesting on how to regenerate your soil, can be done a lot quicker than once believed. God always makes a way.
This is the most assinine of all of the assinine moves by Biden’s sock puppet masters. Oil companies should refuse to comply with any mandates that cannot be achieved without tremendous damage to consumers. Now my stupid lawn mower that barely starts now, will become junk about the time I have to refill my gas jug. Hopefully, that will not be until next Spring.
Now I am pissed off. I think I will hoard all the low ethanol gas I can. At least they still have to indicate the ethanol content at the pump, but I am sure they will discover and change that. Where are my Biden did that stickers!
Unfortunately that low ethanol gas still has a limited shelf life, so stockpiling is not very worthwhile.
10 % was terrible for any and all Combustion engines… 15% will destroy many of them !
I was Pizzed at POTUS Trump for promoting it…now it’s much worse !
(I understand Trump wanted to help the Farmers but Ethanol is garbage !)
Republican senator Grassly is one of the problems with the ethanol we have now.he’s in corn country
I personally would like to thank my Biden voting friends for foisting this dumpster fire upon the rest of us because your TV told you to be mad at Trump.
you keep buying the lie that Chumpy is also the “good guy”
He is sooo much better than your guy.
Only a lie to the uninformed. Pull up a ‘List of Trumps accomplishments’ and learn what he did that the liberal msm never gave Pres Trump for doing. Then compare those to all the mess old joe has created in 15 short months. No wonder Biden’s poll numbers continue to slide downward, people feel the pain from his none-MAGA policies.
And remind them that the joke’s on them ’cause dumpster fires are a leading cause of global warming………
The establishment propaganda media won’t report this so 90% of Americans won’t know how bad they’re getting screwed or where rising prices are coming from. IMO the Dems know with certainty they can rig the 2022 election results. That’s why they keep unleashing policies that are terrible for most Americans.
Where the F… is Congress??? This will destroy the middle class. I can’t believe the Dems are quiet on this! Puddin’ brain needs taken down 5 pegs! Needs relieved of duty!
Don’t blame Biden. He only moves when his strings are pulled. The string-pullers are to blame.
And why is the dem party unwilling to disclose to we the people who are the “they” old joe continues telling us who make his decisions for the cognitive challenged old joe? We certainly have a right to know if they’re Marxists, socialists, communists, etc.
Man I gotta stay out of the comment section. It’s lowering my IQ.
And Sundance, you need to rewrite this article, it’s misleading.
This is factual ;
“The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to issue an emergency waiver, allowing E15 gasoline, that uses more ethanol from homegrown crops, to be sold across the United States this summer in order to increase fuel supply.”
Oh but Sundance was correct on one thing, ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY.
The article is accurate.
“The previous amount of 10% (summer blend) was raised to a year-round 15% (waiver) by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).”… “However, now that summer biofuel requirements for blended gasoline have gone from 10% to 15%, …”
So you’re saying that all E10 will be replaced with E15 this summer ? That’s not possible . Infrastructure not there. https://www.epa.gov/ust/proposed-rulemaking-e15-fuel-dispenser-labeling-and-compatibility-underground-storage-tanks
Not what I understand it to mean.
The govt requires E15
The E15 waiver covered periods when the govt required E10
The Govt now requires E15 year round
If Refineries did not want to create 10% ethanol, they must purchase RIN credits
If Refineries do not want to create 15% ethanol, they must purchase RIN credits
Refineries producing E10 that do not want to produce E15 now have to purchase RIN credits
RIN credits are a cost to the gasoline refineries.
The cost of RIN credits are passed to consumers.
The effect of the waiver (govt requiring E15 summer) means more costs, more purchases of RIN credits, to the refinery.
The waiver is only a waiver insofar as it: (a) allows them to create E15, and/or (b) require the refinery to pay more for not producing E15.
Hope that helps.
I understand but many on here think they won’t be able to get E10 soon. Prices will go up on E10 because of passed on RIN fees but the infrastructure such as seals, piping and underground tanks to hold E15 are not up to specs at 85% of stations ( though the EPA is working on that). The only things affected now are that stations that deal in E15 can sell E15 this summer and the price of E10 will rise some because of RIN fees.
We agree ?
Follow the money ?
To the extent that Petroleum Companies will try to protect the consumer from the actual E15 itself; and to the extent they will now be paying more to provide that protection; then yes, we agree.
However, if the companies decide not to pay the additional RIN fee, they will be selling the E15 blend.
The pressure upon the producers is to sell E15 and/or raise the price for non E15. That’s essentially the bottom-line point of the article.
Thanks for the response Sundance. You’re accurate .
“The summertime ban was instituted in the first place over concerns that E15 gas can contribute to smog in hot weather, per the Times.”
This is where my simple brain starts to hurt. Since we’ve confirmed this ethanol in gas can increase pollution……..ummmmm……so why are we putting it in the fuel to begin with? What ever happened to global warming from pollution, and the oceans are rising, and the world is coming to an end, and the sky is falling, and it’s all my fault because I didn’t buy the right brand of something something………?
The climate can’t be changed by man. Not humanly possible no matter how many trillions some are willing to pay to change nothing. It will change on its own, as it has done since the earth was first formed.
The ex-UN IPCC leader admitted it’s all about the *’redistribution of wealth’* from the wealthy nations to the poorer ones.
Just can’t wait to read all the comments from the instant farming and ethanol experts. It’s always so enjoyable.
Take a stiff snort first.
So here’s the math. 40% of US corn production is used to make ethanol. I believe that most of this ethanol is used in fuel blends. The fuel blend now goes from 10% to 15%, a 50% increase.
So this means that almost 60% of US corn production will go into making ethanol for fuel blends, fuel prices will skyrocket and food shortages will increase enormously.
Another “benefit” is more fuel will have to be burned to travel the same distance, since ethanol contains significantly less energy per gallon than gasoline.
I’ve got to hand it to the “great reset” cabal. They really thought through well on how to destroy the world economy, so that they can “build back better” with a horrific, one world communist dystopia.
essential reading:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/ethanol-has-forsaken-us/602191/
and
https://e360.yale.edu/features/the_case_against_ethanol_bad_for_environment
To date, ethanol has been antithetical to fuel economy. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, vehicles typically go 3 to 4 percent fewer miles per gallon on E10 and 4 to 5 percent fewer miles per gallon on E15, because ethanol packs only about two-thirds the BTU’s of gasoline. Advocates of E30 argue that such inefficiencies can be overcome if high-compression engines are tuned to use the fuel and are certified under EPA rules, making such engines more akin to racecars. But this would mean further EPA regulatory backing for E30 to assure its availability.
A key argument of E30 proponents is that higher-ethanol blends would reduce the need for alternative fuel additives that may have negative health effects. In support, they cite studies related to the impacts of aromatic hydrocarbons from gasoline additives used to boost octane, which lead in turn to secondary particulates with impacts on human health. Without question, hydrocarbon fuels have negative health impacts. But ethanol is no exception. Stanford University’s Mark Jacobson estimates that E85 fuel in “flex-fuel” vehicles may increase ozone-related mortality, asthma, and hospitalizations by 4 percent compared to gasoline by 2020 for the U.S. as a whole and 9 percent in Los Angeles alone.
Apart from the scientific evidence that ethanol-based particles in air can kill people and make them sick, more recent scientific analysis links corn for ethanol to declining bee populations, with potentially catastrophic implications for many other high-value agricultural crops (almonds, apples) that depend on these insects for pollination. A recent study found that declines in bee populations are greatest in areas of intense agriculture in the Midwest corn belt and California’s Central Valley, both of which have few of the flowering species, such as goldenrod, that are so important to bee survival. “These results,” the study noted, “reinforce recent evidence that increased demand for corn in biofuel production has intensified threats to natural habitats in corn-growing regions.”
………”high-compression engines are tuned to use the fuel and are certified under EPA rules, making such engines more akin to racecars.”
Neat! Now I can have those blue flames shooting out the tailpipe just like the alcohol burning cars at the drag race track!
“A recent study found that declines in bee populations are greatest in areas of intense agriculture in the Midwest corn belt …”
Which could be a result of glyphosate (Roundup) use on corn, not just the corn monoculture.
On the running issue. If your vehicle is fuel injected, you will be fine. All of the components of the fuel system are compatible with ethanol. Raising the ethanol level by 5 percent is well within the ability of a PCM to compensate by increasing fuel trims. Ethanol has been in fuel since the 80s. In the wintertime, there may be some lean codes, but it is not going to hurt anything.
Source: I am a L1 (advanced performance) Master Technician with 30 years experience.
Then you would understand that all these problems could be solved by getting rid of the CAT, running high octane in high compression engines. All problems solved but less grift for the elite and connected.
4th issue is the MPG for ethanol is much less than gasoline. The vehicle will consume yet more fuel with less mileage.
It’s not incompetence, it’s malevolence.
Joe Biden has F’d up everything he’s touched……everything.
Joe Biden and The Club has done more in one year to harm everyday Americans, than Russia has in the last 50.
Fail Faster!
FJB
The commerce clause of the Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate commence – I don’t see where it says Congress can dictate commerce. Is there anyway for individual states to push back against this destructive policy? Even revisit the precedent the corrupted SCOTUS decision that expanded that power to control intrastate commerce.
The corn they use in these files is not a corn you would want to eat. It’s called field corn and taste terrible. They also feed it to cattle. My husbands dad grows this kind of corn.
Yes.
After good planting, growing, harvest seasons (weather permitting)
“Field corn” is used for producing:
Separately, “Sweet corn” (which also grows in fields) is grown and used to produce:
Silage(sp?)is what they call it, IIRC.
They grow a lot around me here in way E Oregon and W Idaho.
Yes, everything they are doing is for “the great reset.” Which is not a conspiracy theory.
Suppose the Dem candidate does not win the 2024 election. Then between Nov and Jan the Dems arrange for alternate slates of Electors in certain States to be presented to Congress. VP Harris determines that these alternate Electors represent the True Will of the People and certifies the Dem as the winner.
Objections by GOP reps are declared insurrectionist.
Ethanol is less thermally efficient than gasoline so mileage will suffer. And when it was first introduced most cars were carburetored and gaskets were damaged (before alcohol resistant ones were made). This resulted in unsafe external leaks and progress limiting internal leaks. Today all cars are fuel injected. Will 50% more alcohol damage current O rings?
Ethanol requires 16% more oil to mfg than normal fuels.
Savage idiot in chief!!!
Another problem you didn’t mention is that ethanol contains less energy than gasoline. Increasing the amount of ethanol required in fuel will result in lower gas mileage for cars. This means people will have to buy more gas at inflated prices.
I switched to nonethanol gas 2 months ago. Pleasantly surprised to have mpg improve by 5. Even though it was $0.30 per gallon higher I came out over $2 00 better on the tank of gas. and let’s not forget my 2008 ram will have less repair bills. You lose both power and mileage using ethanol gas.
You would not eat field corn in any event with it not being used in animal feed. The corn used in ethanol production becomes distillers grain which is used as animal feed. The loss are carbs and protein is increased in the feed.
Too bad the whole of the District of Columbia, being one big bowl of shit, just can’t be flushed!!!
It burns hotter too. You will use more gas and potentially damage your engine. Maybe that’s the plan. FJB
Ethanol burns much hotter than unleaded gasoline, which in turn burns hotter than the old leaded gasoline. I think that part of the agenda is to burn out the engines on older vehicles at the expense of their owners, never mind that people who drive them might desperately need them and can’t afford better, while prospering the oil companies and car manufacturers – who are in on the deal to begin with. The party of the people strikes again.
Do you remember (I do) when we switched to unleaded?
The exhaust valves in older engines burned out and the engines sputtered more pollution than they would have on leaded gas until they failed completely.
I can see the reasons for switching to unleaded gas; the cure to keep an older engione running was to buy a bottle of a special additive to put in the tank at each fillup – it was either that or burned valves, which might burn off at the valve stem, fall into the combustion chamber, and smash through the top of a piston. Dead engine.
If caught in time you could rebuild your engine with stellite valve seats and case-hardened valves, the same as those now used in modern engines. I don’t know that a more heat-resistant valve and seat combination for older engines would be available in this fast-changing market but I doubt it.
A switch to propane, if possible given which particular engine might be converted, might extend the life of an otherwise good serviceable vehicle and beat the cost of a new one. Those of us driving older rigs for economic reasons might be able to bite that bullet.
I currently drive a wonderful old Dodge Dakota LTD pickup with a low mileage V6 engne – one of the best engines to ever come out of Detroit. I keep it in top shape – and had planned on driving it for the rest of my life: minimum state taxes, insurance, and upkeep – even with $3/gal. gas figured in. I can’t afford a newer rig, now that inflation has raided my set-aside money scheduled for other things. I’ll be looking for alternatives – I’ll have plenty of time; I won’t be going fishing.
There are some common products available that can be added to gasoline to reduce combustion temperatures; I’ll play with them and see how it goes. The tradeoffs risks will be clogged fuel systems, carboned-up combustion chambers, frequent carburetor cleaning, and the always-present possibility of premature engine death due to valve burnout.
I’ll see how it goes and report my finding here if I turn up anything significant.
A list of over 16,000 gas stations in the US and Canada can be found here:
https://www.pure-gas.org/
When do the actions designed to harm the nation become treason in the eyes of it’s citizens?
“The offense of betraying one’s own country by attempting to overthrow the government through waging war against the state or materially aiding its enemies”
Also, more corn= more land. Bill Gates owns about 42% of all the ‘farmland’ in the US….noted.
President Obama is determined to wreck the economy before Michelle’s Glorious First Term in January, 2025.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2001/08/ethanol-corn-faulted-energy-waster-scientist-says#:~:text=Ethanol%20from%20corn%20costs%20about,produce%20a%20gallon%20of%20gasoline
There’s a little more to added chaos this will bring to the food and fertilizer markets but not many people will pay attention to it until it’s too late. Even then, it’ll be ‘someone else’s problem’.
Those tanks at gas stations where you buy gas are a big mix of either steel or fiberglass tanks that might be 50 years old or more. The average age of a tank in a certain midwest state is 40 years. Even if the gas station looks brand new – and especially if it appears to be owned by someone not born here – the tanks may be old, crappy tanks. Very few of the tanks manufactured before 2005 are certified to hold gasoline with more than 10% ethanol. Putting 15% in them voids their warranty and accelerates their demise.
Of course, that’s probably part of the plan too. Oh, and you ARE going to pay for the clean up.
Honestly, most gas station owners, except for big corporate stations, even pay attention to that.
What is really their proported benefit for this move?
There is only one Party. We are screwed either way.
I despise these people! Ethanol destroys our car engines.
“(3) Vehicle engines breaking down at a much higher rate.” Not only will a higher percentage of ethanol break down vehicle engines over time; small engines (think lawn mowers, weed eaters, pressure washers) will be worse off than they already are. None of these tools will survive a winter in storage without a fuel additive. Couple that with the virtual disappearance of the “small engine repair” business and you see how these implements will soon be land fill fodder.
With any luck, they all took the REAL jabs
Study: Incurable prion disease linked to covid jabs
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-06-06-incurable-prion-disease-linked-covid-jabs-study.html
Visual proof with MRI
https://scholarlycommons.hcahealthcare.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1307&context=internal-medicine