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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 06:13 PM
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EPA approves more ethanol
Anybody heard more about this. This cant be good for some older cars and small engines. I also read somewhere that they will not have to display it on there pumps. This cant be right can it?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/bu...22ethanol.html
 
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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 07:13 PM
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From reading that it sounds like nobody really cares about E15 but the EPA and the Ethanol industry. Something stinks in suburbia...
 
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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 07:22 PM
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It's the new "cash for clunkers".
 
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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 07:32 PM
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Makes me glad I have a diesel and looks likes my wife next car is going to be a VW TDI.
 
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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 07:37 PM
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We can get E15 in my wife's hometown.
 
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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 07:38 PM
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The E10 is bad enough on small engines so now we need E15? What is it E10 is 1mpg worse so what E15 would be 1.5mpg worse?
 
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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 07:42 PM
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The E10 is bad enough on small engines so now we need E15? What is it E10 is 1mpg worse so what E15 would be 1.5mpg worse?
I am running mid grade in all of my small engines right now pretty soon I will be running premium.
 
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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by dsq3973
I am running mid grade in all of my small engines right now pretty soon I will be running premium.
I've been running Premium in my tractor, push mower and weedwhacker since I've heard E10 was hard on small engines. Might just start using scissors to cut the grass.
 
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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 07:50 PM
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They are using it in NASCAR this season and it has given the cars more horsepower

I'm excited! E15 plus my "88" sticker on my back window and I might be pushing 500 hp
 
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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 08:02 PM
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Great - another change to Stoich.

Anyone with a custom tune is going to have to get them revised.

MGD
 
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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 08:06 PM
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Great - another change to Stoich.

Anyone with a custom tune is going to have to get them revised.

MGD
No, there will be a lot more how come my truck runs like crap threads in the tuning forum.
 
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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 08:11 PM
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No, there will be a lot more how come my truck runs like crap threads in the tuning forum.


Even better - that much more cannon fodder for Sir Shotgunz, Delta '88, and TJ TheTerrible

 
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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Micheal
Anybody heard more about this. This cant be good for some older cars and small engines. I also read somewhere that they will not have to display it on there pumps. This cant be right can it?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/bu...22ethanol.html
They have to label it on the pumps. The hose and handle for E15 and higher on the pumps around here are yellow.
 
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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 08:12 PM
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Even better - that much more cannon fodder for Sir Shotgunz, Delta '88, and TJ TheTerrible

More entertainment for the rest of us.
 
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Old Feb 11, 2011 | 08:13 PM
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Yay, more subsidies for farmers and more expensive food.
 
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