People don’t eat yellow dent #2 corn at least not directly it’s used in cattle, and chicken feeds through. The process of wet milling corn and making ethanol with it leaves distillers dried grains as a left over this also is first grade cattle food as cows don’t need the starch from corn in fact it hurts them they do need the proteins which is why DDG is great cattle food. E15 is currently only sold in winter months because it’s Reed vapor pressure in the warm months is too high for EPA approval. E15 is also only sold in marked and dedicated pumps for use in 2001 or newer vehicles only. It is in fact illegal to run SORE engines with it. This EO doesn’t add E15 to the existing E10 fuel pool nor replace E10 with E15 it simply waives the summer sunset of E15 at those dedicated pumps for it. The whole food for fuel is a straw man argument yellow dent is not human grade food and the by products of making hooch is better quality feed for the animals that should be eating it. As usual much to do about nothing. If anything it should add some much needed additional fuel volumes into the supply lines which should lower prices of the market is working and not rigged. It’s easy to avoid E15 by law nation wide it must be dispensed from a blue hose with clear warnings that it is only for flex fuel or 2001 model year or newer vehicles.
Will it really lower fuel prices or just eat at the margins and make them rise less than they usually would? Anyone look at gas prices from 2018 to see what happened when Trump did this? Looks like less than 10% of US cars can use e85 anyway. Only twenty one million or so vs like 280 million vehicles. This is political theater, not meaningful policy. Plus it’s hypocrisy for the “planet is dying in two years unless we end civilization” political agenda.
Some good points, but you’re conflating E15 with E85. The latter can only be burned in Flex fuel vehicles, while the former can be burned in 2001 and newer vehicles (but no ethanol should be used in small engines such as generators, etc). Also, in many places, E10 will probably not be available, replaced by E15, due to state mandates.
Millions of Owners cannot afford new vehicles now, And with price of fuel, even with the supposed cut in price, the owners will have to use that fuel just to help pay for groceries to eat. And of course they will incur damage to their older vehicles then.
Thanks for nothing Joe.
We use cornmeal,corn syrup ingredients for booze chips, cereals and feed
a ton on of livestock with dent corn, you against that,of course we dont eat it directly, not a good argument.