Republicans vote to dilute gas as prices rise above $4.50
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-vote-to-dilute-gas-as-prices-rise-above-4-50-11949494
Republicans vote to dilute gas as prices rise above $4.50
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-vote-to-dilute-gas-as-prices-rise-above-4-50-11949494
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Anything to hide the vascular dementia and stupid choices.
I feel like that headline symbolizes this administration’s *entire effect on the economy* over the past year-and-a-half.
> House Republicans passed a bill on Wednesday that would allow nationwide year-round sales of E15, a blend of gasoline mixed with 15 percent ethanol, also known as Unleaded 88—a product that refiners and retailers normally cannot sell in around half the country during the summer months due to air pollution concerns.
> Ethanol, a clear, colorless, volatile, and flammable alcohol produced by fermenting sugars from agricultural crops such as corn or sugarcane, generally reduces greenhouse gases, but E15 can produce more smog-forming emissions when it evaporates in heat.
> However, while the E15 rollout can lower prices, ethanol does contains less energy than gasoline, so eventually with E15, a driver will end up burning more fuel for the same amount of distance, albeit fuel which is slightly cheaper than standard gasoline.
Basically this ‘solution’ to the price rise from the Iran war produces smog, burns faster than regular gasoline so you will have to fill up more often and pollutes at a higher rate than gasoline over a longer period of use.
Heaven forbid they do something that would *actually* help, like voting to fucking defund Trumps useless war.
Not every engine will tolerate this blend, so Republicans are basically destroying cars for lack of a better idea. Brilliant!
This won’t help. E15 has worse fuel economy, so people will have to buy fuel more often and won’t save anything. Especially as fuel prices continue to rise.
Im no mechanic but isn’t this bad for most consumer grade engines to be running with higher ethanol %?
Fuck republicans for ok’ing this shit.
For a party that hates big government they would rather pollute the environment than resign from their cushy jobs in congress.
This is a textbook republican response to a crisis
Sounds like a farm subsidy to me.
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This is also a bailout for farmers
Do NOT put E15 in any small engines you have.
Boats etc.
It WILL ruin them, also its illegal to do so.
or cars made before ~2001
If you can avoid it for even cars made after that? Do it if at all possible.
Brand by brand for that. BMW hasnt approved using it for models back to just the 2020MY.
edit: nissan is 2018 at the latest. and several others say not before 2013…
So just avoid it period.
Does this blend damage your car? Almost no one knows the answer to this question, they’ll just fill up and hope for the best. Again, doing far more damage than they are preventing to get a number lower, just like cutting gas tax. They are desperate, none of these things are solutions.
They raised the costs of fuel so much they are suspending the gas tax…. You can’t make this shit up. Trump and his cabinet are incompetent.
Republicans vote to waste fertilizer, fuel and water on gasoline instead of growing food
They’re trying to run out the clock and mask the bleeding so they can pass the blame to the Democrats. They know a blue wave is coming and know most people are dumb enough to forget this is all their fuck up.
Ah, typical Republicans. Demolish the environment for 25 cents per gallon which will barely be noticeable as prices gonna spike to well above 5.
Also many cars cannot run E15. Which means they’ll have to pay for premium.
Amazing. What a terrible move.
So they’ll just fuck up people’s vehicles just to save face.
Yes, shrinkflate the gas! That’ll trick us!
Trump is a complete moron and a foreign asset, his cabinet is completely incompetent, and if you still support him you are in a cult.
God I wish I was paying $4.50😩
So we can burn more of the higher pollutant gas but the price at the pump looks better, even though you’ll have to fill up more. Oh and it’ll probably trash your engine too.
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Your engine.
Great so not only will gas remain expensive but it will also burn a lot faster meaning we have buy even more of it. Honestly I hate the conservative side of America so much. Everything they do fucks us all over. Can anyone give me just one example of anything good the conservatives have done for America in the last 50 years? I can’t think of a damn thing.
E15 is also not recommended in small engines (generators, motorcycles, lawn mowers) and not for any car before 2003.
It’s also harder on the internals of the engine and can cause premature wear! Yay!
Cool. The seals in our engines will erode twice as fast with all the ethanol. We’ll get worse mileage, and still be paying $4+ per gallon.
Ethanol has about 33% less energy potential than pure gasoline.
In a 30MPG car, uncut gas would give you 30MPG.
E10 gas (90% gas, 10% ethanol) would get 29MPG.
E15 gas (85% gas, 15% ethanol) would get 28.5MPG.
It’s not a significant drop in energy because it’s only increasing by 5% of the mix.
However, according to the article, E15 can cost 25% less than ethanol-free fuel. So the tradeoff is 30MPG for $4.50/gal or 28MPG for $3.37/gal but a lot more summertime smog.
Cheap? Yes. Awful for the environment and human lungs? Also yes!
Because destroying car engines is a better solution than just ending Trump’s stupid fucking war.
Republicans are useless.
Or you could just stop the war you RECALCITRANT FUCKING TODDLERS
It’s a good thing America is investing so heavily in renewables to blunt the impact of…oh, we stopped doing that last year?
When do we start diluting with Mountain Dew?