Featured E15 May be Coming to a station near you

That is a non-issue for PZEV rated vehicles, like Prius, which directly address evaporative emissions.

 

true .... bur for the >90% of SUV'S, trucks & cars that aren't ..... this isn't great ..... unless you're a farmer that gets to reduce inventory via greater supply exhausting.... turning food into fuel for our RV'S, etc. I could laugh almost, if it wasn't so pathetically bizarre.
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Thankfully, over-generalizations like that aren't taken seriously everywhere. In Minnesota, we have strived to keep it local and seek out energy for production that would otherwise be wasted.

 

How much cheaper is it?

 

The vast majority of ethanol made in the US uses corn or other potential food crops.

 

this is not a generalization much less, an over-generalization;

AAA warns E15 gasoline could cause car damage

So ... how much does E15 cost? Maybe it turns on whether you're talking long-term or just at the tank.
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An article from 6 years ago that doesn't have supporting confirms is what ?

 

look it up .... there are 2018 articles too
& remember - most cars are not newer than the last 6 years.
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I already did. There's a lot of anti-ethanol propaganda out there proven false by our local research.

That's why I tend to avoid the topic. It's simply not listening to the rhetoric.

 

Didn't look very hard apparently. Off the top, here's one that's just one year old, will that do it?
E15 ethanol-blend gas sales threatened by label change
Of course, if you just don't want to believe it, & no matter how many oodles of articles that can be posted - I suppose there's still some way to give them the old poo poo treatment
remember - often is the case that local research knows what side of the bread that the butter is on. There was a time when the tobacco industry's 'health experts' told us that smoking is no big deal.
There are politics behind more corn in our fuel. And naturally the corn States absolutely love more corn in fuel. Here's the reason why;

Running on Corn: Why Ethanol Is Bad for Your Car
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iduno - but the ethanol mixtures have been controversial for decades. Worst example was when the corn fuel lobby, helped by the auto lobby (gm in particular back then) gamed the system, by legally rigging their epa's.
You see, the MPG's were only based off how much GAS is use per gallon, not the ethanol part. So imagine - ethanol actually decreases mileage, yet if you only count 85%-90% of the gasoline part towards how far you go per full gallon, you get to claim higher fuel economy - even though the actual mileage is worse when you add ethanol - because it contains less energy than gas. It really rigged the big SUV land barges. Not that it mattered, because few of the vehicles actually certified for ethanol actually used it, because of the worse mileage.
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Maybe Trump wants Mexicans to get less affordable food? Burn it up instead of letting Mexicans eat them? FYI... not a racist remark, just that there were a lot of stories of corn prices sky rocketed and Mexicans complained about it when we went ethanol crazy.

And guess that fixes the healthcare problem too. Less corn syrup to go into soda.

 

I ran two Prius, 03 and 10, on E85 even though both threw a code. Experimentation verified that E50 works perfectly fine without a code.

Bob Wilson

 

Running some test tanks isn't the same as running it for years.
Any potential damage will be the result of chronic exposure of the fuel system materials to ethanol.

 

Claims of potential damage without anything of substance to support it is spreading FUD.

 

Is a picture worth a thousand words?


There are reams of articles. They can be discounted all day long. What's the purpose, when some fuel experts show evidence of the corrosive nature, and explain how and why a car needs to be labeled flex-fuel, and not just pour the stuff inside.
No one is saying that ethanol is harmful for all cars, it's just important for potential users to understand that one really need to know whether or not it's okay. Otherwise, why would there need to be a label "flex fuel" that the various manufacturers tack onto vehicles?
The Ethanol Effect: Understanding Ethanol & What You Can Do to Protect Your Ride During Storage - OnAllCylinders

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Like I already started... propaganda.

Same old FUD we saw with the rollout of E10.

 

I ran a 98 Buick Lesabre over 100000 miles on e20-e60 until I traded it off.

Can’t say I remember any fuel related issues,

Frank Lee on ecomodder has gone a few steps further than me.

General consensus is that the affect of pure ethanol on rubber and fuel system components is the same as e10, in other words, if it will fail on e85 it would fail on e10 as well.

For me, I was using e15 back in 2001,
only recently has it come back.
in my Volt e15 is 10 cents a gallon cheaper and gives better fuel economy than regular
Win win and the manual specifically lists e15