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What is the bill about?
Feds to Motorcyclists: Pump E-15 into your bike and go to jail.
The Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) reports that according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) using ethanol blends of 15% ethanol in any vehicle that is not a passenger vehicle will be in direct violation of Federal law. The EPA has issued a list of possible plans to mitigate mis-fueling issues with the recently approved E-15 ethanol blends. Prior to E-15, the highest blend allowed for mass consumption was E-10. The MRF has been informing the EPA that the higher blend will be forced upon motorcyclists because of the remaining fuel in the hose from the previous customer. The EPA then said that a 4 four-gallon minimum purchase would be required by everyone. That was rolled back and an EPA document specifically mentions the work of the motorcycle rights organizations in the overturn of the mandatory minimum.
In order to stop the onslaught of higher ethanol blends the Motorcycle Riders Foundation asks that you support this important piece of legislation. HR 875 is a bill that would stop the sale of E-15 and includes a study on the actual effects on the power train of your vehicles.
What is the EPA saying?
From the EPA: "However, groups representing motorcycle owners and lawn mower manufacturers objected to this configuration because their products have gas tanks that are normally two gallons or smaller. In response to these concerns, Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) developed and proposed a new configuration for EPA approval that retail stations may use as an alternative to the currently approved configurations."
The solutions provided by the EPA is to label the pumps with attention getting labels that you are about to pump E-15 into your vehicle. Or purchase new blender pumps that only carry about .3 gallons or have a new pump with a dedicated E-15 hose. The first solution won't work and the second two solutions are too expensive.
In another recent EPA document on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) the EPA states: "The EPA will propose to use flexibilities in the RFS statute to reduce both the advanced bio fuel and total renewable volumes in the forthcoming 2014 RFS volume requirement proposal."
What is the EPA
saying?
From the EPA: "However, groups representing motorcycle
owners and lawn mower manufacturers objected to this configuration because
their products have gas tanks that are normally two gallons or smaller. In
response to these concerns, Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) developed and
proposed a new configuration for EPA approval that retail stations may use as
an alternative to the currently approved configurations."
The solutions provided by the EPA is to label the pumps with
attention getting labels that you are about to pump E-15 into your vehicle. Or
purchase new blender pumps that only carry about .3 gallons or have a new pump
with a dedicated E-15 hose. The first solution won't work and the second two
solutions are too expensive.
In another recent EPA document on the Renewable Fuel
Standard (RFS) the EPA states: "The EPA will propose to use flexibilities
in the RFS statute to reduce both the advanced bio fuel and total renewable
volumes in the forthcoming 2014 RFS volume requirement proposal."
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