Comments on: E15 Blended Fuel Comes Closer to Reality

By: greg45

greg45 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 05:08:46 +0000

I see so much coming from this blended fuel. I see this being pushed more in the future. This will definitely help us get away from oil in the future. Digital printing Toronto

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:36:47 +0000

We need and are lucky to have 10% Ethanol right now. Sure it's not good on older cars, but just think how much demand we have reduced off oil just by adding E10. If it wasn't for Ethanol, we would easily be paying $5-6 bucks for a gallon of gas.

E15 and so on will be even better. It's like us telling the Middle east Fuk you, we will MAKE our own fuel.

Ethanol, unlike oil, is a renewable resource.

If you think about it, it's actually great for the American auto industry too. People will have to get new cars to support E85 flex fuel, and other countries would follow our lead, import American cars, and IMPORT Ethanol from us! (Wouldn't that be bittersweet) Maybe this is the kickstart our economy needs.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:36:08 +0000

By: dsl987

dsl987 — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:04:42 +0000

The EPA can approve it all they want, but the refiners don’t want to offer E15 due to legal liabilities. Unless the car manufactures or the Feds will absolve the refiners of legal responsibility then I doubt we will see much if any E15 produced.

By: Max Reid

Max Reid — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:34:25 +0000

See whats going on in middle east. Oil is not dependable.

Its high time we move to E15 and finally to E85.
Last year Ethanol sales set a record of 13 billion + gallons.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:31:06 +0000

A final salvo from a failed initiative. Die ethanol, we don't even want the memory!

Leave it to a government program to keep this garbage in our fuel tanks.

I'm buying ANOTHER diesel!!!

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:23:17 +0000

Ethanol fuel from corn is a sham. Corn ethanol has a negative EROEI meaning that it doesn’t save oil–it wastes oil. It wastes not only energy but soil and water also. It dissolves plastic parts in your fuel system and makes toxic pollutants from them, so it’s also much dirtier than gasoline.

By: Capt. Concernicus

Capt. Concernicus — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:49:54 +0000

No thank you.

I won't subject my hybrid to that grade of fuel. It's not better in any way. If I remember correctly its energy density is lower (less power, lower mpg) and it takes farmland away from growing food (increasing food prices). Even the people that FFV don't use that fuel for their car.

What a waste.

By: Shines

Shines — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:18:09 +0000

I'm not buying it.

I A M N O T B U Y I N G I T !

Better get the refineries making butanol from the ethanol. If I see 15% Ethanol at the pump, I'll drive to a different gas station. I'll pay the extra for the better fuel.

By: priusbob

priusbob — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:27:01 +0000

This is totally un-necessary move. there are nearly a 1,000,000 FFV vehicles on the road today. This is where the focus should be, on encouraging the people that have ffv vehicles to use the ethanol...

If less than half of these vehicles used e85 this would exceed the mandated ethanol that is supposed to be in the fuel this year. But instead, epa is forcing people that have vehicles not equipped to use this fuel...

bureaucracy at it's worst!