Dr ROLFCOPTER! and so far, it looks like Trump has been doing that. Maybe not for programs, but it looks like every one reg he adds, he cut about five others
@Dr ROLFCOPTER! funny you mentioned Twitter since he did give that executive order. And man, WTF happened to CNN??? Where was the CNN with Anderson Cooper or the one who covered 9/11?
It's why Ukraine gave Hunter and Joe all that money...use the green lobby to reduce domestic production, to increase the price of oil, and make America energy dependent again.
No you can thank Obama the Imposter for over $9 trillion of that debt in 8 years of theft and mismanagement. Remember YOU elected a President who had never ran anything. I damn sure didn't and millions like me.
The debt is a way for the wealthy to make money instead of paying taxes. They lend money to the government instead of paying taxes and then they get paid back.
Kim O'Brien not to mention how this paper currency is printed out of thin air and is backed by nothing but the money in your bank account which is worth less and less the more they print. It's called inflation kids and it's the greatest theft man kind will ever know.
There are warnings on those things about ethanol, but it is fine where there are NO RUBBER parts to deteriorate and NO PLASTIC parts to melt... The information here is NOT complete, it is biased and not FULL INFORMATION.
haha that reminds me of how car parts are going organic and less plastic. i can set a mouse on your car and it'll chew the wires down and cost you $1k to fix it
@@ender2664 oh yeah you must live on the coast. try living in the actual midwest. it's very hard to find a pump without ethanol poisoning. and why does it cost the same as gas? it's less effective.
chemistry fact= ethanol has less energy per gallon compared to gasoline, so you burn more of it to travel the same distance as gasoline BUT you pay a premium for ethanol plus your tax dollars go to subsidize ethanol so it cost you WAY MORE to burn ethanol.
@@m5387 it cost way way more money to produce a gallon of ethanol than it does to produce a gallon of gasoline. The amount of energy that it takes to produce a gallon of ethanol is way more then the amount of energy it takes to produce a gallon of gasoline the only benefit of ethanol in a gasoline engine is it increases the octane rating.
We've had a surplus if corn since Vietnam. It is a grain safety stock in case of global war (like WWII). If not bought, the land will be used for non farming, and we'll be at a food disadvantage in an emergency as Germany, Japan and Italy were in 1935-1945. That's the great "conspiracy ". Thays why the food pyramid exactly matches a soldier's mess hall diet. So this is a way to use the "gvment cheese" the government is going to buy to plow under anyway. Ethanol is an octane booster (Ethyl antiknock pumps in the 50s). It allows us to refine 83 octane cheap gasoline and boost it to 87-93 by adding " up to 10% ethanol". It depends on the vehicle's age if you get significantly different fuel mileage or any component degradation. A 65 Plymouth, yeah, 8%. A 2018 Focus Flex, no or not much. As to water separation. That was worse with 100% gasoline and vented caps (like that Plymouth or your lawnmower). If even a little water gets in via moist air, seaspray or into the station storage tanks: gasoline just gets complete water bubbles that won't burn. Ethanol can mix with that moisture (to a saturation point) and it will burn. In the 70s I remember water in the gas and lawnmowers/bikes that got lots of water in the gas, settling at the bottom and the carb bowl by gravity feed. I did live at a seacoast. I remember my Maverick gas tank rusting and having to be removed and cleaned. I remember my Honda tank getting rust in it. That was BEFORE ethanol. That was leaded 89 gasoline. I now have cars that go over 250k miles with no motor or fuel rebuilds. I drain gas from my motorcycle each three months to ensure it is clean and hasn't picked up silt from a pump. I have yet to find a water layer or milky layer in those pulls when i set my petcock to reserve (bottom feed) and drain into a glass bottle. I know there's lots of THIS AND THAT folk knowledge out there, but fuel seems OK to me. It costs $2 a gal or $2.50 for premium. If the gasoline is yellow, it comes from poorer grades of crude oil (like shale or fracking). If clear it comes from better refining. Remember corn alcohol is clear. It doesn't make gasoline yellow. It just gets used in shitty discount gasoline blends as well as good blends. BTW wonderful fracking is injecting steam water into fragmented and sludged oil fields to extract a liquid oil. You don't think that has water in it.
@@jusrinkoehn5513 by much cheaper you mean the taxpayer foots a great percentage of your vehicle fuel bill. i run pure gasoline in my truck and bike. i get much better mileage and overall better performance than i can with that ethanol crap. 10% corn liquor is bad enough. no way am i using 15% which is what E 85 is.
Even though ethanol stores less energy per gallon vs pure gasoline which in turn causes our cars to consume more fuel to go the same distance.... Ethanol is also killing our small engines.....
@@noahpaulette1490 a true free market would mean ethanol would be priced out of the fuel market. govt subsidizes it and if you eliminate that who is going to opt for the much more expensive motor fuel especially seeing as it gives you less mileage and less performance? currently i am paying more for pure gasoline and it still saves me money over the long run as i get much better mileage than i would with the cheaper corn based fuel.
they wanted to get rid of paper bags. now those plastic bags are a environmental disaster. they wanted to reduce co2 and made more brewing ethanol..... can we stop listening to environmentalists now please?
So true.. When I had to drive buses with gas engine I fueled them with strait gas due to better mileage. Then was called into the office and was berated for it. Thou it was a few cents more the engine's ran better received more miles per gal. What the he..ll do cdl drivers know😞
You'll never get it. Heck, these days you can't get a free market where free markets exist. It's not good enough for liberals to choose not to eat at a restaurant. Now they have to shout and people they don't like until they drive those people out of the restaurant, too. So much for freedom to eat where you choose.
@Randy Van Horn And yet somehow there is still excessive violence, almost a million dead from an opioid epidemic among other stupid shit like why the fuck is everyone in your country so fucking fat, and the big problem of the environment not being able to keep all of us live for the next couple hundred years still exists. The only reason a free market works is because almost everyone is too stupid to know what they want to do with their short meaningless lives, so they just buy stupid shit. Meanwhile a few people have really caught on to this and are selling you this stupid shit because you're too stupid to do anything else with your amazing life of vast potential which is also short and meaningless. With a free market you're not necessarily going to be able to have a better future of a life that is actually satisfying, you're just going to have useless products since that's what everyone wants (or was fucking tricked into wanting by advertisers since you really dont seem to know shit). So what are you gonna do with a million iphones, make a better future, or watch stupid fucking videos all day.
@KelMaster Construction The unfortunate reality is that the pursuit of happiness of many has resulted in the suffering and exploitation of many others, as well as destruction of the environment which will result in the suffering of us all, the stark opposite of happiness.
Instead, there should be an end to petroleum company subsidies,. But the deep state loves their foreign wars and plentiful fuel for their war machinery. Just one facet of their consumption: "We have the best trained military aviators in the world. Sluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurp."
@@solitude2871 yes but cars moter will have a much shorter life span ethanol burns yr engine out quicker. In the long run yr engine will lose its power. I drive a 5.7 lt v8 and no way in hell would i put cheap ethanol fuel in it
@@letsbehonest4221 some cars are built to handle ethanol fuel, because your 5.7 motor is a little bit older it was not built to handle ethanol based fuel, but newer cars such as a 2018+ mustang gt are built to handle ethanol
Bradly C I did some the doctor said it not work for health but it working because kidney failure do not get better in one year so I do agree with you that doctors don't know what they talk about half the time
Yea! Kidney failure is not a real thing. Kidney transplants aren't even needed. They just convince you that you need a kidney in order to create a black market of kidneys. It's all a conspiracy man. Everything can be cured if you just think positively and breath. We don't need western medicine and half of the diseases aren't even real, like AIDS or ebola. Have you actually seen anyone not on the fake news die of AIDS or ebola? Get smart!
icelineman - use a shutoff valve between the tank and the carb if you can. Shut off the valve when your finished mowing and let the motor run the carburetor dry. If the ethanol sits in the carburetor bowl, it will wreak havoc. I used to have horrible problems with my rototiller until I installed a fuel shut-off valve. Cranks on the first pull every time now, even with the corn-crap in it!
Ethanol is only good because it's cheap and has decent octane. Absolutely destroys Jets on carbs and fuel lines because it's hydrophilic and attracts moisture making some nasty varnishy stuff. I use 110 non ethanol gas in my dirtbikes and stuff and it's great excluding the $10 a gallon that it cost.
In Brazil, where ethanol is very, very common, it is produced out of sugar cane, and by what I've seen till today is cleaner than gasoline. But once in while the question comes: we are using or soil to grow fuel instead of food, is it worthy? The ethanol idea exist for a long time here in Brazil, basically since petrol shocks done by OPEC. But we had a guy who said that it wasn't a good idea and invested in eletric cars, his name was Gurgel, at that time was something very simple but the government didn't give the same support to his company as they gave to produce ethanol. And now we have not any 100% Brazilian car company.
Vincent Gonzalez How about hemp it’s good for ethanol production as well and even plastics whatever else basically you can think of let’s get rid of oil already 🤢
What do you mean by "clean"? If it's in regard to the AGW theory had been completely debunked with 100%of their predictions failing over the past to years, then you should reclaim land to grow what you need for food.
Great video as always John! I have older collectible cars and motorcycles with roto-molded plastic gas tanks. Ethanol destroys fuel systems not designed for any ethanol content, and also swells the plastic motorcycle tanks when the ambient water vapor molecules combine with ethanol. Not to mention the nasty binary azeotrope that is formed. All I want is a choice at the pump. There's no pure gasoline available in my state. I'd even (sadly) pay more for pure gas if it was available.
That's actually the real cost of gasoline, E10 pump gas is usually cheaper because of the subsidies. E85 is usually even cheaper still than pump gas for that reason. If you took away the subsidies, the cost would be significantly higher than refined gasoline. Honestly, to me it's worth it to pay 50 cents more to get more power, better mileage, and no ill effects on my classic cars and two stroke engines. The offset in gas mileage increasing 10% makes up for the price premium, IMO.
John: Let the market decide. Politician: But we need to get it started.... .like the war on drugs that's been raging on OUR streets since 1985? Thanks, but NO!
@@AldousHuxleysCatmichigander here. Since weed has been legal anecdotally I've seen a lot less people stumbling around nodding out on heroin / meth. Makes sense that has some of the same pain reducing qualities and it's much cheaper. And some studies have shown that psilocybin mushrooms can help people with PTSD anxiety and all kinds of other things without even getting them high.
@@noahpaulette1490 where I live it's not legal. I wish it where because I know heroin addicts that will tell you weed helps them stop using. So yeah....I 100 percent belive weed can help get people off hard drugs and it should be legal everywhere.
Easy to see why McCain can fight this......there isn't a whole lot of corn in Arizona. Had he been a Senator from the Midwest.......this would be a different story.
I used E85 which is 85 percent Ethanol and 15 percent regular gas for my mustang and its been great I been using it for two years ,it makes the the drivibility more smoother and I it gave me a little more of extra horses In my opinion its the best fuel I every used.
Fun fact: back in 1995 I brought a 1964 Impala that had sat for 10+ years I actually got it running with the same gasoline that had been in it all those years. Fast forward to 2013 I brought a 2003 focus that had been sitting for a few years when I dropped the gas tank to see why it wouldn’t start the fuel pump actually was ate up from the ethanol turning into a acid!!!!!
I've been using ethanol free gas. I get better performance and higher gas mileage after I switched. It costs about $.15 more per gallon but the trade off is worth it.
The Brazilians have plenty of rain forest to burn to plant sugar cane, and less motor vehicles in their geographically huge country than there are in the San Francisco Bay Area alone.
E85 is way better for making power than 93 octane gasoline. Of course you loose a few mpgs but you are able to advance timing substantially or increase boost in a forced induction vehicle without detonation occurring like it would in 93oct.
@ You can find places that sell it away from the cities. Farm equipment that uses gasoline doesn't like ethanol so it's quite available in more rural areas. www.pure-gas.org/maps
"We're ready to stand on our own feet" But then immediately says they're not actually ready to stand on their own feet. Just that they'd be able to stand on their feet as long as they're standing on your back.
Conagra and Monsanto thank you for huge profits on corn seed. How many people actually use E85 but that wasn't enough they put the damn stuff in all the gas and the real problems started as it ate fuel tanks, fuel lines, carburetors and mileage went down. Now if you don't drive every day you have to use an additive or you car may not get you home. A typical government mandate that not only costs you at the gas station but at the grocery store too. Thanks for saving us! The mega business farms with thousands of acres are seeing the profit while small farms are dying. So besides ethanol subsidies they get farm subsidies.
@@nobodynever7884 haha cheaper, cleaner? wtf are you smoking.. i live in the midwest where its every where. it's not any cheaper nor efficient. it causes more damage to vehicles. attracts pests. raises food prices. etc
You wouldn't have that problem with a flex fuel. And before you open your mouth, yes I drive one. And from my experience, as long as you don't drive like a lunatic with your foot to the floor all the damn time, your fuel mileage shouldn't suffer that much.
Fred Stiening oh yes you can. He’s just another political parasite like Mc Caine turned out to be. Both of them nothing but whores . I’d use the word puppet but in their cases whore is far better a description.
I grew up on a farm in Illinois, in Zip Code 61376. Between 1995 - 2019 the "farmers" in this zip code received $63,636,727 in farm subsidies. That's just one zip code in the Midwest. A tiny portion of the entire farm land in the U.S. Between 1995-2020, farmers in the entire U.S. received $424.4 Billion in subsidies.
So what? You do know that farmers grow more things than ethanol crops, don't you? You do know that the government provides many more subsidies to the oil and coal industry than to the ethanol industry (which is zero), don't you? And you do know that the oil industry is an profitable industry, don't you? And you must know that petroleum oil fuels have been responsible for the deaths of millions of Americans, don't you?
I use ethanol in my race motorcycle. If I didn't, I'd be spending $14/gal in race gas. Now I spend $1.80/gal in E85. All I did was change the injectors to ones that flow 30% more, and fine tune on a dyno. I even get more power now than I did on a 50/50 blend of C110/93 gas. I fully support ethanol fuel. Hell, you can make it yourself very easily. Get off of foreign dependencies and put money back into our own economy.
It's fine to run ethanol in a dragster, their engines aren't supposed to last longer than a few passes anyways. Street driven classic cars....not so much...
Oil companies get subsidies too. Biodiesel manufacturers got subsidies and the subsidy was basically the amount of profit that they could make; many went out of business from the removal of subsidies and then government would bring them back a year later and retroactively pay for prior years. Big biodiesel companies kept going while small waited to see if the subsidy came back. Seemed like gov was in the ear of the big ones there. Ethanol has half the energy density of gasoline. It's a pretty terrible substitute for gasoline. I think subsidies are likely the only reason farmers choose to make ethanol instead of feed us. If we get rid of them, the economy will probably find out that ethanol isn't worth the effort. Your car does need to use fuel to transport that less energy dense fuel, so they're indirectly making you burn more fuel. When ethanol was first mandated to be mixed in gasoline, I read a pamphlet at a Shell station claiming that 10% ethanol will not change your fuel economy. It then went on to talk about "other factors" in case you noticed a fuel economy loss, such as tire pressure and weight load in the car. I read this right in the middle of engineering school and was disgusted by the lies.
Mechanic here. ethanol provides better performance and compression ratios than regular gasoline. Short of methanol, ethanol make for a great race fuel.
Stairway to heaven Bohemian rhapsody doesn't matter if it comes from corn or sugar, that's like saying moonshine is alcohol because it comes from corn but vodka isn't because it comes from potatoes, you sir, are a moron.
There is a difference between ethanol cars in Brazil that run on ethanol and my flex-fuel car that "can" run on ethanol. And I'm not sure that if it "can" run on ethanol, that I want to be putting it in my gas tank. Nobody said ethanol was suddenly not alright to power a car. People like myself are concerned about the damage it might do to a flex-fuel car based on trouble other people have had.
Brazil uses sugar cane to produce their ethanol. A ridiculously low yield crop for that purpose. The only reason it's economically feasible is because fuel production is an ancillary byproduct of sugar production.
Isn't this ethanol created by the husk or byproduct of sugar cane? That shouldn't disrupt the market and drive food prices up. Seems like creating energy from a byproduct is not a bad idea, no?
I don't understand how one man, Mr. John Stossel has more balls to stand up to the man than all of us. If we would ALL just demand what is right, it would be done!
I say we make alcohol motors, that way when you break down you can at least get a buzz by drinking some gas. Fun fact: Ford model A could run off of moonshine, more stills than gas stations at the time
Nathan Dennis that is no exactly true. Most modern cars may be setup to handle a small amount of ethanol but I have witnessed voided warranties because of ethanol on cars less than 10 years old. I know plenty of people driving cars 8-15 years old that are not rated for ethanol mix. I have never seen any ATV's mowers or chainsaws rated to run on ethanol mix and I use all of those on a regular basis.
Stairway to heaven Bohemian rhapsody. It isn't damaging, not in the least. Auto manufacturers collude with oil companies to insure that the primary fuel for automobiles is gasoline and any damage caused by using alcohol is limited to electronic controls of the engine. Circumventing the poor performance of an engine requires replacement of the electronic fuel management components after the warranty expires. You've bought into a lie and Stossel is promoting it. Alcohol has been used as a racing fuel for over 100 years and is used in modern engines to this day.
True choice at the gas station would be the ability to buy ethanol free gas, but because of government regulations force oil companies to have a certain percentage of ethanol across all the gas they make, they can't offer ethanol free gas in most places.
Pure ethanol has about 30% less energy than pure gasoline. That means E10 gets you 3% fewer mpg, E15 gets 5.5% fewer, E85 gets 24.5% fewer. Assuming the engine itself is as efficient using E.
@@briant7265 inaccurate as Ethanol improves the way it burns to burn more complete. which is why E10 reduces mileage by 1,5% compared to E5 according to ADAC testing in germany. As a result pollution is reduced by 0,9%, furthermore ethanol produced pollutes 60% less than making gasoline.
Ethanol is good for the car industry but not for the consumer. Ethanol damages alot of the engine parts of your car. Ethanol can corrode rubber, plastic and many parts inside the engine of the car. The way they try to sell you this is by telling you that you're "helping the environment," which is not true. The gas companies are pumping 10 to 15% Ethanol into your gasoline and yet the prices are still the same or even higher. At the end of the day the consumer has to cough up more money for a new engine or a new car, which is good for the car industry but definitely not good for the environment nor the pocket of the consumer.
@@alexdicero4989 it only gets more power if it's tuned to get more power, typical flex fuel vehicles are not designed to take advantage of ethenols performance qualities. Power is just not relevant for stock vehicles as they could put out far more power with gasoline as well with aftermarket tuning and likely will make less power with the ethenol do to not having high enough volume fuel pump and injectors.
One of it's marketing strategies is that ethanol creates less use of fossil fuels when blended with gasoline. However, since it's been mandated, many mechanics have said the gumming of fuel injectors has rose exponentially. When injectors gum up the on board diagnostics senses a problem and compensates by increasing the fuel output. In the end, it winds up using more fossil fuels.
Less energy density mainly. You can crank up the compression ratio and feed more fuel into the engine to get heaps more power, but you'll use a TON more fuel.
E85 is great for flex fuel Subarus! It's equivalent to about 100 octane, which allows tuners to crank up the boost and get way more horsepower. Without the subsidies, availability never would have grown. It's even more important in Western States that only get crap 91 octane.
One of our products we make is bio-diesel (methyl esters). We make it from waste vegetable oil, potash and methanol. It works well but there is no way we can sell it for cheaper than standard diesel. Larger companies can get credits (called RINs) but this is not available to most smaller producers. This is a great way to turn a waste product into liquid fuel and it is good for the environment since it burns much cleaner. However, these larger companies often use virgin oils, and that becomes a problem as it drives up the cost for food.
Greens: "THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED! Don't ever question us!" Greens: "Ethanol will help save us from the evils of gasoline!" Greens: "Oops! Now that we studied it we realize it is worse." Greens: "Ban ethanol! THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED!" Is it any wonder that environmentalists require a heavy amount of celebrity endorsements to get people to swallow their 💩?
Do you *really* believe that environmentalists have that kind of power? Money talks in government, a protest sign doesn't. The real reason for ethanol being subsidized is more complex. America was producing less than half the amount of oil we currently produce. We were heavily reliant on OPEC. Ethanol was a desperate attempt to reduce a foreign oil vulnerability. There were also business interests at play and geopolitical shifts in energy consumption.
wow. I'm surprised to know that USA had ethanol in gas stations. but, yeah... politicians being politicians. What I have to say, is: We, in Brazil, started to use Ethanol in 1981. In my personal opinion, 'tis the best option, but nowadays, the market are not selling ethanol-only vehicles, they are all dual-fuel engines. ("flex" how the market named it). ethanol-only cars, works better; flex, are crap when using ethanol. (that was the way government and market found out to settle down and keep both parts happy). tips to keep in mind if USA decided to adopt the same idea: 1 production: in Brazil, we make ethanol from sugar cane, in USA, they make it from corn. It must be measured the amount of cane needed for a gallon and the amount of corn for a gallon. (is it worth it?); 2, ethanol is corrosive for certain types of metals, so carburetors or admission diffusing parts, usually made in antimony, need to be made in another material or give them a nickel coating (please, check the system, because there are other materials and parts that get destroyed by ethanol, other than the two I listed here); 3 ethanol doesn't work well in cold seasons. So, probably, from the center to north of USA, they will hate ethanol vehicles, because it is a nightmare to get it working in the morning and it "fails, coughs and spits" all the way. sorry for the long comment; I hope I helped.
Ethanol: it was originally done for environmental reasons for energy production and cars. Wind and Solar: same basic thing... we keep finding the environmental costs of those 2... I feel like this cycle will never end...
I learned in History class that the United States has enough Domestic oil to last us for 30,000 years. Why are we not utilizing it? Why should we be worried about it now? What or who are we reserving it for? The future military? And I also learned that the invention of the Diesel engine was meant to be run on peanut oil. And it did for a while until.... you can guess the why the rest is history.
@@Thedar561 No it is just less time efficient. You still use the same amount of energy in the end to get the same job done, but a larger volume of fuel
I use E85 in my F150 and I love it. The new F150s are high compression engines which need minimum 91 octane, and 93 for the best result. Ethanol is 105-115 octane. It burns super clean (you can stick your finger in the tail pipe and it'll come out clean), it deposits no carbon, burns cool, is wayyyy cheaper then premium (more than a dollar cheaper).
In addition, the ethanol additive breaks down rubber engine components, corrodes aluminum engine components, evaporates down to a tar-like substance that makes valves stick and push rods bend or snap, and must be drained from all gas tanks five times as often as real gasoline! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a couple of old cars. A V8 powered 1979 Jeep CJ7, and a 1970 Oldsmobile 442. They ran better on the cheapest 100% gas, than they run on the most expensive ethanol garbage. For a long time I had to drive very far out of my way to the last gas station selling 100% gas, until it too made the switch. Now I need to use premium, and they still don't run as well as they used to.
Ethanol destroys all rubber including the rubber gaskets in your motor rubber fuel lines and everything else made of plastic or rubber that it comes in contact with also the energy inside gasoline is measured by octane the lower the octane the less energy in that gallon of gasoline so when you add ethanol you decrease the octane level decreasing the amount of power in that one gallon of gasoline causing your automobile to use more fuel to create the same amount of power and they know this but it's designed to fool people if you pay $20 to put regular gasoline in your car to fill it up and you can go 300 miles or you can put $18 of gas in your car but you're only going to go 265 miles people don't tend to look at the mileage their car is getting and they tend to look at what it cost to fill the tank and they don't even realize they're filling it more often this is why cars back in the 90s got better gas mileage than they do now and before people trying to bite my head off about it remember the Geo Metro 58 miles to the gallon the Ford Festiva got really good gas mileage even full-size trucks got 22 miles to the gallon now full size truck gets about 18 to 22 miles to the gallon still but they're doing everything they can to try to get that mileage and if you want a car to do 35 or 40 miles to the gallon you're going to have to buy some type of a hybrid and it's going to cost you more
Joseph Atnip when I had my 2010 f150 with the 4.6 engine I’d use ethanol free gas and get close to 30 mpgs if I was doing highway driving and using cruise control.
you are wrong about how octane works, lower octane fuels have MORE energy. The octane number essentially represents the activation energy of the molecule, the higher the number, the more energy is required to start combustion. With all else being equal, lower octane fuels have more energy than higher ones. However, all things are not equal, in the real world, we can tune the engine around the fuel it uses. Since higher octane fuels have more resistance to pre-ignition (because they need more energy to start burning in the first place), we can have engines with higher compression ratios, allowing us to extract more useful work out of the higher octane fuel.
It is more controversial to extract the oil from Alaska than from the Middle East. A lot of the land in the Middle East is barely habitable desert, where petroleum is primarily what the land has to offer. Alaska has a lot more forests and wildlife that Americans want to avoid disturbing and keep in its natural form.
carultch Well Trump has already started and to be honest I could give too shits about the Forests in Alaska not being dependent on foreign Oil is far more important
The American Motorcyclist Association frequently lobbies Congress to keep gasoline companies from raising the ethanol level from 10% to 15% because of its negative effects on motorbike and other small engines. The fear is that as 0% ethanol (true gas) is slowly disappearing, the companies will start to faze out 10% as well once 15% gets established and without good signage on gas pumps a rider might inadvertently fuel his bike with the higher 15% and cause engine problems for his bike. Add to the fact that as of late there is growing trend of interest in older retro bikes that is more prevalent among riders than that of antique cars among car drivers, thus there will be even more disastrous effects on people’s vehicles that weren’t designed for that stuff. Me, I have been blessed to have lived in areas where I can ride my motorbike 12 months out of the year, so I never had to worry about the effects of winter storage. Even when I lived where it was a tad bit colder like it was in NE Oklahoma, where I might park it for a week or two there still was plenty of non ethanol gas available especially at the various Tribal convenience travel plazas and I preferred the way my bike ran with pure gas.
its not the fuel , its motorcyle manufactors , they have had 15 years to make there products work problem free with ethonol. they no longer make leaded gas any more either , change with the times, or be obsolete . Trying to bring back a obsolete fuel is as dumb as making lane splitting legal . Now take a DEEP breath ,,,relax , clear your mind ..... ready ? I own a motorcyle and have riddin for over 10 years . ,,,and never been in a accident on it either
@@ericwsmith7722 My bike is a 2012, so while I have no problem running E10, I may have with E15. At the time of manufacture no one-even the manufacturer-knew that there would be a call for a higher rate. And as I stated earlier, there is a higher incidence of antique and classic bikes still in service so no amount of ‘making it work’ by the manufacturers will change that, short of a time machine. People nowadays hang onto vehicles much longer than before as our car is also an extremely reliable 99 Corolla and we are happily debt free. Unlike the switch to unleaded back in the day which required a few retrofits like catalytic converters etc, older bikes would require a lot more stuff to work out E15 and I would guess other small engines might need enough stuff to make them much larger and unwieldy. As for the tangent pull to another argument about an unrelated controversial issue of which I have neither an opinion nor care to even talk about, I’ll ignore. In the end, I was only reporting the AMA’s position on the ethanol issue and they are far more privy to the details of their argument. Take it up with them. Don’t kill the messenger. Please :)