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Old 06-10-2019, 06:14 AM   #1
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E15 gasoline blend good for farmers; bad for engines


Reactions are mixed to the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency lifting a summertime ban of E15, a gasoline blend made of 15 percent ethanol.

Corn and soybean farmers praise the action while officials in the boating industry criticize it, saying gasoline with 15 percent ethanol will damage marine engines.

Don LaBar, head of the service shop’s marine and boat division at Caddie Labar’s boat dealer in Dallas, called E15 “junk” and said it can impact gas lines, carburetors and fuel systems and cause rubber to break down.

“Boats have gas line hoses which are rubber. That’s the big thing. What it also does is it actually sucks moisture right out of the air and puts it in the gas tank of the boat. Most gas tanks of boats are ventilated,” he said. “Mr. Trump promised the farmers and the farmers are trying to make money. I have to support him but I don’t like it.”

A spokesperson for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said E15 can be used in flexible-fuel vehicles, model year 2001 and newer cars and light-duty trucks.

Yet, Subaru officials caution drivers with newer vehicles in their owners’ manuals not to use gasoline that contains more than 10 percent ethanol.

Bobby Murray, service manager for Minooka Subaru in Moosic, said E15 could damage fuel injectors and seals. Subaru also doesn’t cover E15 under warranty.

Dan DelBalso, co-owner of Pat & Dan’s DelBalso Ford in Kingston, doesn’t recommend using E15 in newer Ford vehicles. If they are flexible-fuel vehicles, however, it is OK, he said.

Other automakers, including BMW, Mercedes, Mazda, Mitsubishi and Volvo, have vehicle models not approved for E15 since it can harm engines and drivers are encouraged to check their owners’ manuals.

E15 should not be used in boats as well as vehicles with heavy-duty engines such as school buses, transit buses and delivery trucks, on-highway and non-road motorcycles, snowmobiles, engines in equipment such as lawnmowers and chainsaws as well as model year 2000 and older cars, light-duty trucks and medium-duty passenger vehicles, the EPA spokesperson said.

The new rule from the Trump administration and EPA will allow some gas stations to sell blends containing up to 15 percent ethanol year-round. It ends a summertime ban that former President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency imposed in 2011.

Some Sheetz stores in Northeast Pennsylvania, including locations in on Route 93 in Sugarloaf Twp., West Front Street in Berwick and 500 Mount Pleasant Drive, Scranton, have E10 and E15 available.

LaBar said he thinks only a few places will see the gasoline blend made of 15 percent ethanol year-round.

“The farmers can’t produce that much fuel, not the way we use gas in America,” he said.

Some authorized gas stations, including Newell Fuel at 1355 Memorial Highway in Shavertown, Blue Ridge Travel Plaza in Mountain Top and Wawa on State Route 940 in White Haven, sell ethanol-free gasoline.

Higher ethanol blends tend to be slightly cheaper than the standard 10-percent gasoline.

Today, 97 percent of the country’s fuel mix contains about 10 percent ethanol and John-Michael Donahue, spokesman for the National Marine Manufacturers Association, said he is concerned that the availability of E15 will continue to spread.

In addition to damaging marine engines, he said E15 is prohibited by federal law to be used in small engines in lawn mowers, chainsaws and other power equipment.

Gas pumps that include E15 are marked with a very small orange label which Donahue said is not enough to protect consumers from misuse.

He is concerned when people fill up at gas stations during summer boating season, a rising number of them will use the wrong fuel that contains the blend with 15% ethanol.

The National Marine Manufacturers Association has repeatedly voiced opposition to the EPA’s proposal leading up to the action on E15, calling it a direct threat to consumer safety.

Thom Dammrich, president of the National Marine Manufacturers Association, said for more than a year, the recreational boating industry and other stakeholders have been “working hard to convey the harmful effects of E15 and dissuade the administration from moving forward with this now official rule.”

“Our industry remains steadfastly opposed to this policy given a simple set of facts: E15 destroys engines in a wide range of everyday consumer products, contains less energy content than gasoline and other biofuel alternatives, and is terrible for the environment — all of which are reasons the summer sale ban on E15 was implemented in the first place,” Dammrich said in a statement.

Dammrich added that the absence of better consumer education and protection efforts in the new rule further jeopardizes the safety of boaters and others who use small gas-powered engines.

More than 60 percent of Americans mistakenly assume that any gas sold at their local station is safe for all their products and nearly nine in 10 say the government should do more to protect consumers from “misfueling” with E15, he said.

“With hard-to-read, often hidden warning labels serving as the only misfueling prevention measure currently in place, it’s hard to fathom why the EPA rebuffed even modest reforms to at the pump safeguards,” Dammrich said.

By lifting the restrictions on the sale of higher ethanol blends of gasoline, Trump kept a campaign promise he made to farmers suffering from the trade war from China and his decision to impose tariffs.

Ethanol is made from corn and other crops and the action on E15 was hailed as win for farmers.

Gary Moyer Sr., who owns 130 acres of farmland in Hollenback Twp. where he grows corn and soybeans and raises beef cattle, said he is sure the final rule on E15 will have a positive impact on farmers and they could see an increase in what they are paid for corn.

The Trump administration also recently announced the federal government will spend an additional $16 billion to help farmers hurt by the trade war with China.

Moyer, who ships some of his corn outside of Mifflinville, said he has already seen some extra money this year and “every little bit helps.”

Keith Hilliard, president of the Luzerne County Farm Bureau who grows corn, soybeans, potatoes, wheat and hay on 1,200 acres of farmland in Sugarloaf Twp., said while the new rule could be a win for farmers because they could be paid more money for corn, he is not yet sure of the impact.

“We could see a little bit more money but I don’t know how much,” Hilliard said. “I’m kind of glad to see that we’re trying to be more self-sufficient as a country.”

In a statement, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said he appreciates President Trump’s “steadfast support for our patriotic farmers and for his commitment to expand the sale of E15 and unleash the full potential of American innovation and ingenuity as we continue to demonstrate our rightful place as the world’s leader in agricultural and energy production.”

“This move to approve the year-round use of E15 in time for the summer driving season provides consumers with more choices when they fill up at the pump, driving demand for our farmers and improving the air we breathe,” Perdue said in the statement. “While the Trump administration and USDA are expanding the ethanol market in the United States, we continue to fight for more export markets in Brazil, Mexico, China, and other countries across the globe.”

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In addition to damaging marine engines, he said E15 is prohibited by federal law to be used in small engines in lawn mowers, chainsaws and other power equipment.
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Gas pumps that include E15 are marked with a very small orange label which Donahue said is not enough to protect consumers from misuse.
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"With hard-to-read, often hidden warning labels serving as the only misfueling prevention measure currently in place, it's hard to fathom why the EPA rebuffed even modest reforms to at the pump safeguards," Dammrich said.
One needs look no further than this:

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Literally everything that Obama did will be undone by Trump.

I have a station around that still pumps E0. If I start to see E15 at the pump, guess I'll be switching over.
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I have a station around that still pumps E0. If I start to see E15 at the pump, guess I'll be switching over.
Is that the one in Issaquah? What's the max octane they carry?
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I don't know enough about gas stations and how they work. Why would the owner of a gas station get E15 fuel? Would the profit margin be higher?
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Is that the one in Issaquah? What's the max octane they carry?
Bill Waters Spirit in the Wedgwood neighborhood. I don't know about octane, but as long as I get 92 I don't really think much about it. I haven't been using this station because I made the decision that the additives from Shell/Chevron were more important for longevity in my DI engine than buying E0.

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I loathe snopes, but this one is pretty much spot on. Obama also wanted E15 you dingleberries. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/e15-gasoline/

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"The consequences are so severe that environmentalists and many scientists have now rejected corn-based ethanol as bad environmental policy. But the Obama administration stands by it, highlighting its benefits to the farming industry rather than any negative impact."
Please don't make this political here. It's the EPA. Obama happened to be President when EPA already tried and were sued to prevent them from doing it back in 2011 (Obama was for it also, for the record). Trump is in EPAs side again, but the 2011 wasn't halted because Obama. Sheesh. And it was proposed in Septemberish timeframe, but there was the shutdown, which further delayed discussion and implementation.

Suit was thrown out, because the automakers didn't have the right to sue to stop it. No merit or something like that.
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Please don't make this political here. It's the EPA. Obama happened to be President when EPA already tried and were sued to prevent them from doing it back in 2011 (Obama was for it also, for the record). Trump is in EPAs side again, but the 2011 wasn't halted because Obama. Sheesh. And it was proposed in Septemberish timeframe, but there was the shutdown, which further delayed discussion and implementation.

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The person in charge of the EPA is now a former lobbyist for the coal industry... so there's a lot that's changed between the EPA under Trump and the EPA under Obama... Saying that they both followed the recommendations of the EPA is a little... well... disingenuous.

The rule that was signed into law under Obama limited the volatility of gasoline to limit ground level ozone. So they opened E15 to the marketplace, but volatility limits prohibited it's use in the summer time. This new waiver removes a scientifically founded limit in favor of deregulation. IMO, this is there to toss a bone to farmers because of the game of tariff chicken.


Either way, VW said warranties are kaput with E15, so I will have to keep a close eye on where I fill up from now on. Or maybe just preemptively switch to E0.
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Hey pre, you worried about E15 voiding your warranty?


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yep, it corrodes the cables that run from the batteries to the motor(s).
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Either way, VW said warranties are kaput with E15, so I will have to keep a close eye on where I fill up from now on. Or maybe just preemptively switch to E0.
VW is fine with e15, at least the owners manual for my 2016 GTI says so.
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Literally everything that Obama did will be undone by Trump.
Good. Obama sucks.
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VW would never fib.
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Thread title should have been "Many manufacturers warn against using gasoline with e15, be sure and thank trump" with many other auto manufacturers obviously having the same issue and the emphasis of the first post being off road, marine, and small engine issues. I'm pretty sure Subaru isn't going to try and prove you used e15 a few times to deny warranty issues, especially ones not caused by excessive ethanol usage. A 5% increase in ethanol randomly isn't going to destroy your fuel system or pull so much moisture from the air that it causes instant massive rust death.

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Digging a bit, it looks like vw started making all cars e15 compliant in 2014. So maybe no big deal.
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Thread title should have been "Many manufacturers warn against using gasoline with e15, be sure and thank trump" with many other auto manufacturers obviously having the same issue and the emphasis of the first post being off road, marine, and small engine issues. I'm pretty sure Subaru isn't going to try and prove you used e15 a few times to deny warranty issues, especially ones not caused by excessive ethanol usage. A 5% increase in ethanol randomly isn't going to destroy your fuel system or pull so much moisture from the air that it causes instant massive rust death.

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My Ford factory warranty, yes. QT next to me is selling this crap. But the RS only gets fuel from Costco, a tier 1 fuel provider. I wouldn't put E15 in my mower or weed eater. This crap fuel will eat my bike tanks from the inside out. F Trump and his Fox n Friends Mackdonald's eating fat bertha ass! Can we get a President that actually has an intellect and can think? I'll take a moderate Republican (do they exist anymore?) or a centrist Dem (No AOC thanks!). The Orangutan needs to move to N. Korea and have a got damn party.
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Or you could do the adult thing.


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My Ford factory warranty, yes. QT next to me is selling this crap. But the RS only gets fuel from Costco, a tier 1 fuel provider. I wouldn't put E15 in my mower or weed eater. This crap fuel will eat my bike tanks from the inside out.
Top Tier has nothing to do with E10/E15. Top Tier can still have blends up to 10% ethanol depending on region and provider.
E10 can still eat away at certain things, especially on older cars.
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Hopefully more E30 and E85 coming too. Some markets (Brazil) that these cars are sold in (ex. WRX/GTI) use E20-E25 based fuels. The fuel system is designed to handle to this.

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Hopefully more E30 and E85 coming too. Some markets (Brazil) that these cars are sold in (ex. WRX/GTI) use E20-E25 based fuels. The fuel system is designed to handle to this.

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I'd say that's questionable... there are so many components that could be different for those markets.
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I'd say that's questionable... there are so many components that could be different for those markets.
Brazilian spec WRX has the same HPFP and runs E22 there. I don't see why they would change any other components as it is NOT marketed as a flex fuel vehicle there. Same case for the GTI. The components could probably handle up to E30 without serious problems. E15 should not be an issue whatsoever for a modern DI engine platform.
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Avoid Costco gas. They were the most inconsistent gas on the dyno I saw while working with Snail.

Chevron is by far the worst though, that Techryon junk causes issues at the top end on pretty much everything. Good way to lean out a motor quick right when it shouldn't be...
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