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Originally Posted by EarlyPorsche
To be clear: are you sure it was ethanol free? I do not believe anyone has been blending ethanol free since around when Bush mandated ethanol. I wouldn't believe or trust the sticker or person saying its ethanol free gas. The only ethanol free gas available is av gas or the likes Cam2.
Yes it is a free country with choices except for the choices that we cannot make and that are made for us like the percentage of ethanol blending.
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CONGRESS mandated the use of ethanol in gasoline.
Bush reluctantly signed Congress's Energy Policy Act of 2005 which authorized loan guarantees for technologies that avoided greenhouse gases, including advanced nuclear reactor designs as well as clean coal and renewable energy.
the Act increased the amount of biofuel (usually ethanol) that must be mixed with gasoline sold in the United States to 4 billion gallons by 2006, 6.1 billion gallons by 2009 and 7.5 billion gallons by 2012.
two years later, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 extended the target to 36 billion gallons by 2022.
That was done by the new DEMOCRAT CONGRESS. It was part of the pelosi-sith's
Democratic Party 100-Hour Plan during the 110th Congress.
Bush signed it because it had too many votes to get vetoed and because he reluctantly had to give into the dark side in order to get the pelosi-sith to go along with increased drilling for oil.
They didn't mandate a percentage, just a total amount to be used. The cities and states mandate the percentage.
It started out typically at 5% but soon turned into 10%, thanks to the dark side. Then darth Obama pushed for 15%.
The EPA has already authorized the increase to 15% due to sith mind tricks having a strong influence on the weak-minded.
Based on EPA tests for all 2006 E85 models, the average fuel economy for E85 vehicles resulted
25.56% lower MPG than straight unleaded gasoline.