In my recent post about potential E15 gasoline you had the opportunity to sound off about why you don’t like the stuff. In with those comments, there were also some interesting suggestions on how to address the issue. So now, I’m asking you two questions: Is there really a problem, and what do we do […]
With additional reporting by Mike McNessor In this corner, in the red trunks: America’s single largest agricultural lobby and associated hangers-on; numerous local boondoggle ethanol plants; and a number of bought and paid-for Senators and Representatives. The challenger, in blue trunks, and coming out swinging: America’s Darling, Ford; GM; the AAM, AIAM and NMMA; and […]
I never thought very much about ethanol in gasoline until I started messing with old dirt bikes again. Two of my bikes run poorly on E10 (10 percent ethanol), and I blame the alcohol for making the rubber seals in the tank petcocks so hard they’ll barely turn. My lawn mower, my generator, my truck […]