[rbg81]

I’m not sure most people realize how damaging Ethanol is to most vehicles, especially the engine. Mandating the e85 blend is just insanity.

[relictele]

Ethanol had about as much allure as Barb Mikulski in a bikini.

Liberals are annoying and ignorant but ambitious - they constantly try to repeal the laws of economics, physics, and chemistry. A gasoline engine is just that.

[thackney]

They were trying to push E10 to E15. I have not seen any discussion for mandating E85. Most vehicles would not even start, let alone run on it.

[mazda77]

What are you talking about, that mental giant, Austin Dillon, is doing commercials designed to look like PSA’s telling us that worries about ethanol damaging our cars is a hoax to sell additives to counter the effects of ethanol. /extreme sarc

I suppose that just makes him another male whore. He should have spent just a little more time in science class.

I will be the first to support capitalism and market freedoms, but when the federal government subsidizes this sponsorship and the industry uses people like this to propagandize the public, it is a bridge too far.

Little boy Brian it taking NASCAR down the tubes of irrelevancy. I remember hearing of Big Bill’s concerns about sending his kids to IV league schools. He should have listened to that little voice of warning.

http://www.growthenergy.org/news-media/press-releases/american-ethanol-enhances-sponsorship-of-richard-childress-racing-with-driver-austin-dillon-in-2013/

http://www.growthenergy.org/news-media/press-releases/american-ethanol-launches-public-awareness-campaign-promoting-the-benefits-of-us-made-ethanol/

[tanknetter]

I’m not sure most people realize how damaging Ethanol is to most vehicles, especially the engine. Mandating the e85 blend is just insanity.

It's only "insanity" in the same sense that Cash for Clunkers was "insanity".

With well-cared-for cars now easily capable of being run out to a quarter million miles or more, what better way to either force people to support the auto industry, or if they can't afford a new car force them into public transit, than to destroy the car they currently own well in advance of its expected lifetime?

I just wish that they'd make a decision about getting rid of ethanol soon. I need to buy an outboard motor in the next couple months. I'm wavering between a Suzuki gasoline and one of the Lehr propane fueled models. The big reason I'm leaning towards the Lehr, even though its considerable more expensive, is because the ethanol in gasoline is known to really gum up the carburetors on the gas-powered outboards ...