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results were premature. They threatened, among other things, that they would
sue the EPA.
Four months later, in January 2011, the EPA extended their E15 pronouncement to include all passenger car and light truck gasoline-engine vehicles manufactured for model years 2001-2006, thereby giving the green light to all such
vehicles manufactured from 2001 on.
• Read more about EPA's January 2011 Waiver
The oil-gasoline lobby had a shit fit. They re-circulated all the press releases
they used four months before, added some new vitriolic condemnations, and
made good on the promise to sue the EPA.
Again, Big Oil claimed that millions of vehicles would be damaged and that the
EPA waiver was made without sufficient testing and that it was premature.
Today, the American Petroleum Institute and two auto manufacturer associations held their own teleconference to officially announce the finding of a study
that they preliminarily released several days ago. This study, which was conducted by a private organization called Coordinating Research Council, studied
the use of E15 in eight vehicles and found that two of the vehicles suffered from
pitted valves, leaks, and loss of compression. A former member of CRC joined
the Big Oil panel to present these results and explain the technical aspects.
Using the study's results, the group unanimously stated that their earlier criticism about the EPA results was correct, that the EPA was premature in issuing
the waiver.
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