Any decision on 15% ethanol in car gas?

edwardh1

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EPA or someone was to decide this summer I thought.
wonder when we will have compartmented fuel tanks so you could buy less gas but still have a "full" part ogf the tank/
 

Bob_VT

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Re: Any decision on 15% ethanol in car gas?

Suggest you use google and look it up...... trolling here will go nowhere.
 

edwardh1

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Re: Any decision on 15% ethanol in car gas?

what I am I supposed to be trolling for?
 

thehemi

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Re: Any decision on 15% ethanol in car gas?

I think the decision was pushed back to September.
 

edwardh1

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Re: Any decision on 15% ethanol in car gas?

Thanks
seems the RV industry would be concerned too- many of those rigs sit up a lot
 

Brewman61

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Re: Any decision on 15% ethanol in car gas?

Other than vehicles certified to run on E85, currently nothing that I know of is certified to run on anything over E10. I understand testing is going on to see what affect E15 would have. Hopefully ethanol free gas will remain availalbe in my area.
 

Silvertip

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Re: Any decision on 15% ethanol in car gas?

I know several people that are running E85 (15% gasoline and 85% ethanol) in vehicles that are not even certified to run E85 and are having no ill effects other than reduced fuel economy. Down the road there will probably be some issues but these vehicles have been run on it fairly regularly for years. 15% probably won't hurt a car. It will probably bother a non-ecm controlled outboard.
 
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