Sentences with phrase «ethanol blend e15»

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Federal appeals court judges recently heard a challenge to the Obama EPA's approval of E15, a blend of 85 percent gasoline and 15 percent ethanol, to be -LSB-...]

``... we have determined that e15 blends of ethanol would cause considerable damage to the 7.5 million outboard engines in use in this country today.

The American Motorcyclist Association is well aware of the dangers of fuels with higher ethanol blends, like E15.

The EPA rushed through approval in allowing a blended fuel with up to 15 percent ethanol (E15) without adequate testing.

NASCAR racing team owner Richard Childress has an op - ed in the Charlotte Observer this week in which he renders a full - throttle endorsement of E15 gasoline and the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the federal program that requires more and more ethanol be blended into the nation's fuel supply.

Pre-2001 car engines, parts and systems may not be able to handle E15 fuel blends (15 % ethanol, 85 % gasoline), adversely affecting engine, fuel pump and sensor durability.

They want Washington to force refiners like ExxonMobil to blend 15 percent ethanol — or E15 — into the motor - fuel supply.

Research has shown higher ethanol blends, such as E15, could damage vehicle engines and fuel pump systems, socking consumers with the repair bills.

The ethanol lobby's biggest voice, the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), issued a press release last week trying to defend E15, the controversial fuel blend containing up to 15 percent ethanol.

In 2015 hearing testimony, the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America / National Association of Convenience Stores told Congress: «To date, very few retailers selling mid-to high - level ethanol - gasoline blends such as E15 or E85 have seen substantial sales of these products.

With EPA last week proposing ethanol - use requirements for 2014, 2015 and 2016 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the ethanol industry no doubt will keep lobbying to foist increasing amounts of higher - ethanol blend fuels like E15 and E85 on the motoring public.

Although most gas contains 10 percent ethanol, the newer type referred to as E15, has 15 percent of the alcohol blend in it.