Regulators Delay Decision to Increase Ethanol in Gasoline

[Nathanael]

And the ethanol debates gathers more fuel:


Citing the need for more time to complete testing, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has delayed for the second time a decision to increase the percentage of ethanol that can be blended into the domestic gasoline supply. Regulators said testing on higher ethanol blends will be completed in September.

The EPA will use the tests to decide whether or not to raise the blend rate for ethanol from 10% (called E10) to 15% (E15). While the ethanol industry has been lobbying hard for the higher rate, automakers, oil refiners and fuel service station operators support the testing to ensure safety and that fuel hoses and other engine parts in older cars can support fuels that contain more than 10 percent ethanol.


Link: http://www.energyboom.com/biofuels/regulators-delay-decision-increase-ethanol-gasoline

[damntexdem]

1. The big agricorp corn growers will have to wait a little longer ...

to get their snouts further into the trough.

[RC]

2. And they can keep on delaying this.

[elocs]

3. Ethanol has less energy than gas, so the more ethanol/gallon, the less mpg.

The fewer mpg, the more gas that drivers will have to pump into their cars and the more oil that must be drilled to refine that gas.

Corn ethanol, which is most of what we have here, in an energy sink that uses as much energy as it supposedly saves (it also uses lots of water). Corn farmers up here in the Midwest love it though because it increases the price of King Corn.

[Kringle]

4. Ethanol, lots better than oil from the midddle east .nt

[Nihil]

5. Good to see you back Razzleberry!

:hi: