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That's right, ethanol - that great pork barrel product from the farm states that fouls and destroys our engines, has badly impacted food for starving countries,  and is subsidized up the wazoo! It has been doing this for years in the form of E10 - 10% ethanol added to gasoline. Now the ethanol folks want the EPA to up the percentage to E15. Oh goody! 

I was fishing this weekend with a guide who said that ethanol caused his Mercury 225 hp engine to burn up. That was a $20,000 item. I have to add an anti-ethanol cocktail to my motorcycle fuel or it burps at me. Ditto for my Volvo if I let it sit for a couple of days and the water starts to separate from the gasoline, which is one of the characteristics of the stuff. Did I mention that it also gives poorer mileage? The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers agrees that E15 should be a no-go, as does AAA. Maybe some day alternative fuels will be ready for prime time, but that time is not now. Bury this junk and keep it there. 

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