AllSAFE supports go-slow approach to more ethanol blends at the pump
Filed under: Ethanol
With a website that looks like it was made in about four minutes, the Alliance for a Safe Alternative Fuels Environment (AllSAFE) is continuing its mission to make ethanol pumps less confusing for people pumping gas. It’s no surprise that filling your tank with E85 when you car is not flex-fuel capable is not a good idea, and AllSAFE is supporting the EPA’s recent enforcement letter that addresses gas stations selling gasoline blended with more than 10 percent ethanol. AllSAFE’s press release quotes the EPA as saying that gasoline blends higher than E10 “may cause damage to certain emissions control devices and systems and increased emissions from gasoline-only vehicles and engines. For this reason, the Clean Air Act prohibits retail gasoline stations from selling gasoline blended with more than 10 percent ethanol for use in gasoline-only vehicles and engines.”
While AllSAFE is in favor of better labeling on gas station pumps, the release (available after the jump) also has a pretty strong anti-ethanol feel: AllSAFE spokesman Kris Kiser is quoted as saying, “The proliferation of ethanol blender pumps at retail outlets in some regions of the country pose potentially serious problems for consumers and manufacturers alike.” Nonetheless, AllSAFE’s position paper states that the group is in favor of more ethanol in the nation fuel supply.
[Source: AllSAFE]
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Original post by Sebastian Blanco