Not only does using corn for fuel drive up the cost of food, it can also damage our cars. The E15 fuel mandated by the EPA is so bad that even Government Motors is against it.
AAA urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to halt sales of gasoline with higher ethanol concentrations Friday, contending the fuel blend causes engine damage not covered under most auto warranties.
EPA says that cars made in the model year 2001 and later can handle E15, the fuel blend made up of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent petroleum…
General Motors vehicles model years 2012 and newer, as well as 2013 model-year Ford vehicles, permit use of E15. Still, GM spokeswoman Sharon Basel said the automaker agrees with AAA [and] said EPA was being “irresponsible” by permitting the use of E15 without evaluating the fuel’s effects on the entire car.
“We have the same opinion, the same view as what AAA has so eloquently put in their release,” Basel told The Hill on Friday.
AAA noted BMW, Chrysler, Nissan, Toyota and Volkswagen do not cover damage from E15 under their warranties. Ford, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo have said E15 damage might void warranties, according to AAA.
Read the whole thing, using E15 fuel can also void auto warranties.
H/T Doug Ross
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@lonelycon No doubt! This is the type of alcohol they tell you NOT to use in your engine! What’s wrong with this picture?
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@lonelycon Hasn’t this been proven by all doubt?
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The EPA should be entirely defunded. Period. Created with good intentions it has fast become the bureaucracy of choice for the progressives to hamstring capitalism, commercial and residential power consumption and individual mobility. Progressives believe energy=man and man=evil and will be controlled.
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The earth hasn’t warmed in 16 years. Can we tell the EPA that they have been sucessful and they can go home now?
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The same assholes at the EPA who ruined my lung by banning my asthma inhaler are now going to ruin my car and thanks to their boss’s shitty performance on the economy, I’ll never be able to afford a new one and we don’t have mass transit here. Jackasses.
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Would you expect anything else from a corrupt Kenyan bastard?
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What better way to get the American people out of their cars than to destroy them from the inside.
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It has been proven that cars get better gas mileage with pure gasoline and it has also been proven that the Environmentalist will do more damage to our earth than every human living on it.
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