Posted on 08/09/2012 4:08:12 PM PDT by Nachum
The Environmental Protection Agency is going to require all consumers to buy at least four gallons of gasoline from certain gas pumps after the new E15 ethanol-gasoline blend is introduced into the market. The new regulation was revealed in an Aug. 1 letter to the American Motorcyclist Association, which expressed concern that the vast majority of motorcycles and ATVs in use today aren’t designed to operate on E15 fuel and residual fuel from a pump that serves multiple blends might harm these tanks. “The use of E15 will lower fuel efficiency and possibly cause premature engine failure,”
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We’re talking OPE here not cars.
As for the illegal, that’s between you and the EPA.
Illegal? Yeah it is.
Suck it Steve Chu !!
E0 will store for a long time. (not like E10 which goes bad quickly).
With all the problems you’re having with your engines, it would be well worth it to get a couple 55 gal drums.
AMEN to that, and if (GOD forbid) we get the Kenyan Marxist bastard for another term, we'll be facing this kind of choice.
” Burning down to less than a gallon when traversing the desert is just suicidal.”
That goes double for all who live in areas with high snow and brutal blizzards. You must keep your tank full in order to provide heat in case you go into a ditch. In many areas it may take days to get to you and 3 gallons can save your life.
This is nuts, cooked up people who live inside the beltway and have never driven in high blizzard conditions.
These people are nuts.
Most zoning laws and fire codes will not let you have more than one 55 gallon drum of gasoline, at best, in a residential area. So that’s right out.
It’s not really inside of the engine where the most damage is done, it’s in the fuel delivery system. It damages the seals, o-rings, and the soft rubber parts, especially in small engines that weren’t designed to run alchohol based fuels. Alchohol also absorbs water, which causes corrosion in metal parts of the fuel system if not designed to handle it. And because of its low ignition energy, alchohol based fuels are prone to pre-ignition if the wrong heat range spark plugs and ignition timing are used. Don’t get me wrong, alchohol is a good fuel, IF the engine is designed to only burn alchohol. You can’t have it both ways with different fuels.
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