Posted on 09/18/2015 1:48:24 AM PDT by RaceBannon
Lauren Fix, “The Car Coach” is a competitive race car racer, a mom, and America’s top woman in automotive news. She explains E15, and why it will invalidate the warranty for most cars.
Most recently, Jacki served as General Counsel to an engineering firm specializing in energy, national security and environmental cleanup. Previously, she served many years as legal counsel on Capitol Hill to the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and the former Ranking Member of the Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee, advising on the oversight of federal agencies. Prior to her career in Washington, she worked as a corporate litigator, and as an Assistant Vice President for a national bank.
She entered public life at a young age, as a finalist in the Miss Teen of America pageant. She also served as the Public Relations Director for a statewide political organization.
Jacki studied Economics, Spanish, and World History at Marshall University (Society of Yeager Scholars), Oxford University in the United Kingdom, and the University of Zaragoza in Spain. She is an alumna of the Vanderbilt University Law School, where she served as the President of the law school’s Federalist Society chapter.
Jacki has an extensive network in her six overstuffed rolodexes from which the show draws its guests—including industry leaders representing all parts of the energy sector (oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, solar, and wind), and government officials, journalists, and political insiders. Often, Jacki will know the day’s most-wanted guest and be able to secure the guest with a personal call.
Jacki is from the Ohio River Valley, where the shale runs deep. She descends from a long line of energy workers, including roughnecks, railroaders, coal miners, and nuclear energy specialists.
How about posting what exactly “E15” is and why we should be interested in it, instead of a love screed about some woman we never heard of?
ummm
see the link at the top of the screen?
Click on it
see? I knew you could do it.
Seriously? You live in the U.S. and don’t know what E15 is? You don’t know about the ethanol scam that’s causing our food prices to climb because the feds are subsidizing the conversion of corn to ethanol to “save the planet”?
Yes, it’s to save the planet. I’m sure automotive manufacturers wouldn’t lobby Congress to mandate a car destroying product to increase their sales. Nor would the banking/loan industry support it just because it forces more people to take out loans.
I not only wouldn’t put e-15 in my engine operated equipment....I put sta-bil fuel storage with ethanol treatment in my vehicles and power equipment for the 10% ethanol that is in all gas around here.
Ah but the Midwest corn farmers lobby, strongly, all candidates to make sure they’re on board with this crap.
Thanks, mate. I appreciate the informative link.
“Ah but the Midwest corn farmers lobby, strongly, all candidates to make sure they’re on board with this crap.”
Yeah, the government has made the Midwest farmers into whores.
The “link” is irrelevant to My post. I do not click on links I do not recognize as coming from legitimate sources so that tells Me nothing in regards to your thread.
Race, you’ve been about for a good while, and you know the proper ways to format threads. Your title for this one and the subsequent “description” following it are not at all obviously related to one another.
It’s like I started a thread titled “Detranol proven to be dangerous compound” and then filled the thread stating how much My girlfriend knows about it and what degrees she earned in college.
The two are not immediately (or obviously) related to each other, and so the thread itself is not complete without some relevant information.
It SHOULD have stated from the outset what “E15” is and why we should be concerned about it, not waste bandwidth about how some show host has earned some awards which do not explain about the title of the thread at all.
I know about the ethanol problem and agree that we should work against it. That does not explain the lack of relevancy between the title of this thread and the lack of explanation regarding it in the descriptor following the title. Thus My difficulty with it.
The owner’s manual for my 2008 Mazda 6 specifically states that ethanol should be avoided, and under no circumstances should more than 10% ethanol be used.
I can buy ethanol-free gasoline where I live and that is all i put in the tank. I have found that in that specific car I get about a two MPG decrease if I use fuel with ethanol.
Really? You don't know that "they" are pushing to up the ethanol in gas from 10% to 15%?
10% is not good for gasoline engines and 15% would be really problematic in durability. The ethanol itself is corrosive and we used to use 'dry gas" to absorb water from gas in our tanks - it was just ethanol which bonds well with water. Ethanol in the gas tanks at stations means that the old 50 gallon reservoirs designed to let water settle to the bottom are no longer valid - that water gets absorbed into the ethanol mixture and is pumped into your tank.
That's why we should listen to this screed.....
what a conundrum. State mandates e-15, e-15 voids engine warranty. So use a stabilizer. But why don’t the states mandate refineries just add stabilizer in the first place?
also does a number on lawn mower engines - zero turn is in the shop for carb problems. going to use premium gas from now on. Expensive repairs to the other lawnmowers at the office location.
Unless you drive a flex fuel vehicle or your owners manual specifically states the your vehicle can use E15 using this 15%ethanol gasoline blend may well harm your engine and certainly will invalidate your warranty. the EPA and the ethanol boondoggle are pushing for this higher ethanol blend. Don’t count on much help in Congress as corn state members, even some who profess to be conservative, have become whores to the ethanol lobby
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