Friday, June 19, 2015

AMA Anti-E15 Petition

I've signed it

The EPA is pushing higher ethanol limits despite its own acknowledgment that the market cannot consume these higher amounts due to “infrastructure and market-related factors.”
That’s when the U.S. Department of Agriculture comes to the rescue. On the same day the EPA announced its proposed rule, the USDA unveiled a $100 million plan to double the number of higher-blend renewable-fuel pumps. Under the blender pump subsidy program, the USDA will administer competitive grants to match funding for state-led efforts to test and evaluate innovative and comprehensive approaches to market higher blends of renewable fuel, such as E15 and E85.
The EPA calls for higher ethanol blended fuels and the USDA spends taxpayer dollars to make it happen, despite knowing that none of the estimated 22 million motorcycles and ATVs in use in the United States is approved to use E15 or higher ethanol blends. Using those fuels in motorcycles and ATVs is illegal and may cause engine and fuel system damage and void the manufacturer's warranty.

Sign up here.


2 comments:

  1. Pretty sure the Ural can run on vodka. :^) I'll sign the petition anyhow just because I hate all the market meddling distortion by the EPA and BIG CORN. And the trashing of machinery. For the chainsaws!

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  2. Yes! Chainsaw are noble machines and deserve better.

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