Merle Anderson: Government ‘Myths’ Limit Ethanol’s Full Use

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March 14, 2014

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by Merle Anderson (Grand Forks Herald) Orrie Swayze from Watertown, S.D., and I have traveled many miles together as friends and American Coalition for Ethanol founding board members. We have gained a historical perspective on all that is called ethanol.
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First, we must remember that Henry Ford favored E30 for his Model T. After that, what could go wrong, did go wrong as government teamed with oil, and — in a joint effort to keep ethanol out of gasoline markets — created misleading myths that E30 was illegal and would ruin engines.
Lead octane then poisoned our children unnecessarily for 50 years.
I want to throw the entire U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in jail because it has not enforced the law. The Clean Air Act as well as other federal laws phased out not only lead but also comparably hazardous benzene-associated octane to the maximum extent achievable.
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Still another government myth is that dealers automatically void a standard auto owner’s warranty if the vehicle has been fueled with E30. The Magnuson-Morrison Warranty Act requires dealers prove to the owner that E30 caused the part failure — and that’s a difficult if not impossible task as parts in both a flex and non-flex model are essentially the same. READ MORE and MORE (DomesticFuel.com) and MORE (Ethanol Producer Magazine)

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