What is going to happen to mandated bills in Congress for using E85 (85% ethanol and 15% gasoline)?
From Biofuels Digest: “Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Ken Salazar of (D-CO) Colorado and Sam Brownback (R-KS) have co-sponsored the Open Fuel Standard Act of 2008 that would mandate that 50 percent of new vehicles by 2012 have E85, M85 (methanol) or warranted biodiesel capacity, increasing to 85 percent in 2015. The bill was also introduced in the US House of Representatives by a bipartisan group of legislators. The bill focused on the need to create energy independence for the US as a national security interest”. Government officials have introduce bills for mandating E85 in new vehicles in the near future with the corn ethanol industry collapsing around them. The feds were sold a sham on corn ethanol being the answer to our fuel problems in the U.S. Sounded good, looked good on paper and with the government backing this program (with kickback money), no way this could fail, or so they thought. Now, the government wants everyone to start using E85 and ethanol blends. A really big ques
