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show signs of wear if alcohol somehow gets into the fuel system. They warned
about consumers experiencing roadside breakdowns and costly repairs because of E15 use. What? Are they suggesting that the millions of vehicles that
have broken down over the past 100-years only broke down because they used
fuel other than gasoline?
To use the old phrase made contemporary again by Joe Biden: The API is full
of malarkey.
The API guys stated, yet again, that the EPA prematurely approved the use of
E15 in vehicles manufactured since 2001. API says that there hasn’t been sufficient study. They conveniently ignore the fact that alcohol/ethanol has been
used in vehicle engines since the mid-1850s; that virtually every independent
study of gasoline vs. ethanol shows ethanol is the superior engine fuel; and that
even the automobile industry’s top scientists (including the General Motors guys
who invented leaded gasoline) believed that ethanol is the better fuel. They also
ignore the fact that there are other countries on this planet that have relied on
ethanol and various ethanol-gasoline blends for years, with no problems other
than those that are customarily experienced by internal combustion engines.
In addition, they gloss over the fact that the government’s testing laboratories
didn’t just take up the study of ethanol as an engine fuel in the past couple of
years; they have studied ethanol and different blend levels for many, many
years. Moreover, Ricardo Laboratories – the world’s leading and most respected private lab dealing with fuel issues – did its own study that shows that
E15 can be used in all vehicles going back to the early 1990s.
They have also mischaracterized, again, the EPA’s E15 waiver; making it sound
like it wasn’t just a recommendation, but that it is a mandated imperial order.
They referred to a recent AAA warning about E15 causing engine damage as if
AAA conducted their own conclusive testing of the fuel. But AAA didn’t, they
relied on the lies given to them by the oil lobby and then invented some of their
own gross exaggerations to make the warning seem more urgent. It’s just more
malarkey; hot stinky grotesque batches of malarkey.
But perhaps the single stupidest misstatement that the two presenters made
today is when they characterized ethanol as being dangerously corrosive. Let
me remind everyone that ethanol is alcohol. Alcohol can be consumed; it can
be rubbed on your body; it is used to clean and disinfect sensitive medical instruments that are used on internal organs of the human body; and you can
leave an open container of alcohol in a closed room without killing any people
who may be in the room. Try doing these things with gasoline. And, if you only
