In this podcast, Jim Hultman, a farmer from Sutton and member of the Nebraska Corn Growers Association, comments on the science behind the move to E15 - a 15 percent ethanol blend."If we’re ever going to get to a point of replacing a significant amount of petroleum-based fuel with a renewable one like ethanol we’re going to have to get beyond a base fuel of E10," he said. "We’re going to have to start using higher blends like E-15. There’s no way around it."
Hultman recorded this just days before EPA announced its approval for E15 for newer model year cars (and NASCAR said it was adopting the fuel).
He noted that some ethanol opponents made up mostly of Big Oil and environmental extremists keep going on about "untested" E15 and arguing that EPA should "Follow the Science." He then goes on to talk about some of that science available to EPA (in addition to its own studies).
Despite EPA's approval, of course, the anti-everything folks are still out their hoping someone will listen. It's classic for them to call for more testing because no amount of testing will ever be enough for them. They will always want more even though the rest of the country will have moved on to using more renewable fuel. But when you're in the pocket of Big Oil, that's what you get paid to say.
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