Posted on 08/02/2015 5:11:50 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(CNSNews.com) - The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Friday it is investing up to $100 million in biofuels with the goal “to double the number of fuel pumps capable of supplying higher blends of renewable fuel to consumers, such as E15 and E85.”
“A typical gas pump can deliver fuel that contains a maximum 10% ethanol (E10), which limits the amount of renewable energy most consumers can purchase at the pump, despite the fact that our farmers now produce record amounts of renewable biofuels,” the USDA press release says.
“This new investment seeks to double the number of fuel pumps capable of supplying higher blends of renewable fuel to consumers, such as E15 and E85.”
The USDA announcement coincided with an EPA proposed rule change on Friday, which would reduce the amount of corn-based ethanol blended into the gasoline supply from what was originally planned under the 2007 federal law.
“Due to constraints in the fuel market to accommodate increasing volumes of ethanol, along with limits on the availability of non-ethanol renewable fuels, the volume targets specified by Congress in the Clean Air Act for 2014, 2015 and 2016 cannot be achieved,” the EPA proposal says.
Some automobiles and smaller engines can be damaged by the use of ethanol blends.
“There is no damage, if aluminum corrosion occurs it is probably from the absorbed water.”
Damage from higher combustion temperatures over gasoline.
The corrosion is caused by the ethanol then as it attracts moisture more readily than plain gasoline.
What, do you have a Ferrari lawnmower?
A Briggs and Stratton was designed to run on kerosene or gasoline, I've run my snowblower with up to 50% diesel. So the alcohol is no problem.
You just don't want to leave any gasahol in the tank when you're done. Run it dry.
Even the environmentalists are against ethanol! (More energy, way more water, less crop diversification, less ground left fallow for habitat, etc.)
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_case_against_biofuels_probing_ethanols_hidden_costs/2251/
A fairly detailed article outlining some of the “hidden costs”.
Here is where the Liberals and the Conservatives should get together against the Crony Capitalists.
Alcohol has a lower combustion temperature.
The corrosion will not happen if you don’t leave fuel in your power equipment. The gas tanks have a hole in the cap and the humidity gets in.
A car fuel tank is sealed, the fuel is pretty stable under those conditions.
Having said all that, I’d rather have straight gasoline and ska-rew the phony ethanol-fuel industry. Alcohol is for drinking.
Since 1980, no candidate has won the Iowa caucuses without kowtowing to the ethanol lobby, sometimes trampling their supposed free-market principles in the process.
In 2000, Senator John McCain staunchly opposed the ethanol mandate, but by 2008 had flipped, announcing that he had become a “strong” supporter of what he now called a “vital alternative energy source.”
In the run-up to the 2012 Iowa caucuses, Mitt Romney smiled for the cameras, ear of corn in hand, to assure Des Moines voters: “I support the subsidy of ethanol.”
Even if I run it dry it runs like crap it eventually fubar’s your carb, I don’t want it period.
Obviously an engine built to run on alky will withstand it, but an engine built to run on iso-octane won’t tolerate the higher combustion temperatures.
I don’t oppose alky per se, but am more of a nitro-methane/methanol blend kind of guy.
You have correctly identified most of the factors at work in this flat out government scam/swindle. This is ADM in cahoots with most of the ag interests and paid for swindler Midwest senators.
Years ago I questioned Grassley (IA) as to how he could justify this program——his pathetic reply was that it was a popular program favored by farmers. Well no kiddin Einstein!
You are likely aware that the USDA is headed by a democrapper former Iowa governor—though to be fair the repubocrats have their faces buried in the trough just as deep.
You don’t have to win the Iowa primary to be nominated. However, if the next states were Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, you’d be in real trouble!
All my gear is quite old and but works well. I’ve kept it going all this time, and the least of the problems is fuel systems and carburetors. I’ve yet to replace one.
Idler pulleys, bearings, belts, tires, starters, ignition components...different story.
Run a little diesel in it. It keeps the aluminum from drying out and turning white.
>>it runs like crap<<
Now just a minute...do you know how to adjust your carburetor?
Scott Walker’s all for ethanol!
Assuming you don’t have hooves, you probably don’t eat a lot of the corn used for ethanol feed stock.
I had to have the carb rebuilt, it was an odd duck hard to adjust. No I haven’t tried diesel, Marvel M-O yes, but not diesel...
Buy the recreation gas sold at any marina. Neither outboards or aircraft engines thrive on ethanol contaminated gasoline.
Let’s get Trump on our side!
Over time, I’ve had to pull the bowl, dump out slugs (water and slime)and only if I’ve left fuel in them. Maybe replace an occasional needle and seat or sunken float.
If you know a guitar player, an old “High E” string comes in handy for cleaning little passageways.
The best thing invented since sliced bread, is the Briggs and Stratton “Magnetron” ignition coil. It eliminates the points and condenser, and works just fine wet.
Every rig I’ve got now has one, as it makes the machine smooth, reliable and easy to start. The snow blower is never even started unless it’s below freezing, and then I seriously rely on it.
Corn B corn when it comes to filling a field. Corn as feed to cattle and to bourbon counts, just like black lives....
RL... I think I got the Magnetron, mine is old but not that old! Yes I tried draining the bowl as well, suprisingly no H20...
I had a Techumseh that never ran right....wouldn’t idle. I took the carb apart many times, until a guy told me about a crossdrilled passageway that needs to be cleared.
Once I found it and ran a tiny wire through it...it ran like a top. But that was before the alcohol fuel came to Maine.
You should always have been able to get avgas at your local small airport. Just get a gallon and see if it fixes the running condition. If it does, you may be able to mix it with your regular gas as an additive (develop your own blend) as it is pretty expensive to use straight.
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