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 Post subject: E15 Protest
PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:11 pm 
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Location: New Hampshire
Passing this along from my local boating forum:

The National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) is asking boaters to contact the Environmental Protection Agency and voice their support of a proposal to modify the mandate requiring higher concentrations of ethanol in the nation’s gasoline fuel supply. The feedback deadline is January 28.

To make it easier for boaters to create and send a message to the EPA, the NMMA has set up a special page, which you can connect to by this link.

http://capwiz.com/nmma/issues/alert/?alertid=63045576


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 Post subject: Re: E15 Protest
PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:16 pm 
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Thanks!


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 Post subject: Re: E15 Protest
PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 5:08 pm 
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Get the word out, y'all! This is very important.


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 Post subject: Re: E15 Protest
PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 6:41 pm 
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Do some research before you hand out your personal information to an unknown source.

-Ethanol in gasoline is a state level law, not federal. The EPA or any other federal governmental agency does not control the gasoline sold at your local pump if it's ethanol blended or not. The EPA can only approve what's allowed to be sold, but not enforce what is sold.

-States like Florida, Maine, and a few others do not have any laws in effect enforcing the sale of ethanol blended fuels. Other states do have state level laws enforcing it's sale. Florida specifically passed a bill a few months ago (HB4001) that repeals any former law the state had requiring fuels to be blended. Non ethanol fuel sales are popping up like wildfire here. Florida might hate marijuana but we love our non-blended fuels. Premium octane unblended runs about 10 cents more per gallon compared to blended premium sold at car pumps. Worth the extra $2 to fill the tank.

If you want to sign a petition to allow non-ethanol fuels to be sold in your state, talk to your state legislature. They control what's at the pump. Signing this above is no different than just yelling at the clouds and giving an unknown source your personal information they can sell to advertisers.

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 Post subject: Re: E15 Protest
PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:32 pm 
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Supply and Demand.

"The Renewable Fuel Standard, first enacted in 2005, requires refiners and blenders to use 16.55 billion gallons of renewable fuel in 2013. More than 13 billion gallons of this total will be met by the use of corn ethanol, a level that will increase in subsequent years.

There are two key problems with continuing to mandate the consumption of more and more corn ethanol each year:

Corn consumption: Approximately 44 percent of the U.S. corn crop is now used to produce ethanol, artificially inflating food and feed prices while damaging the environment.

Blend wall: As gasoline consumption declines, refiners face a “blend wall” when the RFS mandate exceeds the limit at which ethanol can be blended into the fuel supply, determined to be 10 percent of total gasoline consumption."

BTW, the website is the legit NMMA site

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