AMA press release

[wbrissette]

Interesting. This is the first time I've heard of any such requirement (4 gallon minimum with E15/E10 pumps). Won't affect most of the RT/GS/GSA crowd, but could affect others (my Tiger 800 barely holds 4 Gallons).

 

AMA Press release on 4 gallon minimum

[bmwsit]

This news has been kicked around on several sites I visit. It does seem to be the consensus that this won't bother the larger bikes as you have mentioned. But I would ask who here with an LT, GSA, RT etc with large tanks has not stopped and filled up when those you are with had to, or at the last gas for the next XXX miles in order to make sure you made it there. During my regular commutes I do run my tank low, often til the light comes on. Why worry, I know where the stations are. But when on the road, particularly traveling through remote areas there are times when stations can be 200 or more miles apart. Take too many side trips in there and you are walking. So on the road, I often start paying attention to my tank as it passes through half a tank so I can anticipate where to get gas next. So my fill ups on the road are often less than 4 gallons or are right at it.

 

They just need to do away with ethanol all together!

[MT Wallet]

This regulation is just plain dumb. Mandating 15% ethanol is just plain dumb regardless of a 4 gal minimum. We're having a drought limiting corn production and some ethanol plants shuttered so EPA bulls ahead with new regulations. Now is not the time to take more corn out of the food chain to produce alt. fuel additives. The original thought was to reduce the price of gas by adding ethanol. The price and shortage of corn defeats that idea all day long. Fortunately, for me, I frequent a gas station that sells pure gasoline.

[slipknot]

In any election all votes are done the same day. Fair enough. But the presidential primaries are done with the dates for states spread out. The most conservative states get to vote first which allows the campaigns to outspend any intelligent challengers and dominate the results and eliminate challengers that somehow hang on for a few more states. So we have ultra-conservative, rural, lightly populated, corn producing states dominating a system and country that is mostly urban and liberal. (Despite what the corporate media will have you believe when polled on guns, health care, foreign affairs, etc., this country is far more liberal than we are told. For a reason that should be clear). In order to bribe the corn producers and their corporate customers that also benefit, the thugs in Washington give them what they want: subsidized corn, mandatory fuel mix and no serious discussion. The ethanol makes city pollution worse in winter, literally starves the very poor via the inflation added to all grains as corn prices rise (which was a major reason for the demonstrations in Egypt), and it causes inflation in all economies as companies struggle to adapt, transportation gets more expensive, etc. Unfortunately, most people do not understand or even have exposure to real news and combined with apathy and laziness will not vote out their own thug that bribes them with pork projects. And writing a congress thug is a lost art so they assume all is fine. So here we are.

[jimbullitt]

What a bunch of crap. They need to stop this ethanol juggernaut-now!