Many people around here are seeing significant mileage impacts with E10, on the order of 10-15% poorer fuel economy. So lets see, you replace 10% of the gas with ethanol, and get 10% poorer fuel economy....so you burn as much gas as ever, add in the environmental impact associated with ethanol production, and increase cost pressures on food products. Only a government mandate could be this screwed up. Oh yeah, you also give ethanol producers huge tax breaks and subsidies costing the tax payer even more money, and reducing the tax income for the government.
At the least, it should be mandatory that any pumps running diluted gasoline should be so marked.
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