Recently, South Dakota Sen. John Thune joined with Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in calling for President Joe Biden to allow for the year-round sale of E15 ethanol, which they say will help ease the price of fuel. Currently, E15 fuel cannot be sold in conventional markets between June 1 and September 15.
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Not just no, but hell no.
You might save a few pennies at the pump, but at what cost - decreased mileage, increased engine wear and who knows what else, and that's just in vehicle engines.
Every single one of my small engines has a sticker on the tank saying do not use E15 in it. While I can get by using E10, I can notice the difference between that and straight gas. I can only imagine how shitty the performance would be if I tried burning E15 in them.
Then there's this fertilizer shortage that they're talking about. How are you going to grow fuel corn without fertilizer?
