Great news for American drivers came on Friday as EPA Administrator - after consultation with Energy Secretary Chris Wright - acted to suspend the EPA’s summer blending fuels requirement related to the summer haze reduction program under the Clean Air Act.
This is interesting positioning for Trump. The next president has to come in and either permanently change policy to remove these expensive requirements or he/she has to reinstate them and immediately increase prices. Smart move on his part.
Maybe not for the program as it was implemented, but summer haze was a very real problem with very real potential health impacts. Anyone who lived in a big metro area in a warmer climate during those years will remember the "heat inversion" days when we'd get this layer of haze just a few hundred feed up during rush hours. Like it or not, the EPA program has been effective in dramatically reducing it.
Los Angeles and Denver were bad and did get better. One big problem is the idling engine emissions. Get the traffic moving and reduce the time the engine is running also helped. But there’s no reason to punish the rest of the population!
They don’t take effect until 9/1 and expire 15 days later? And States can ignore them? But they’ve been in effect since May 1st? I’m not following. This just sounds like a bunch of hand waving to me. End the requirement completely and prohibit States from implementing their own requirements. That’s the way to do it.
It's a 20-day waiver because that is the maximum allowed under the law. It can be re-extended if the situation warrants, just like the Jones Act extensions the President has done.
My vehicles get 20% better fuel mileage burning non alcohol fuel - mostly E10. The cost is higher so my operating cost is a wash. The benefit is realized when i don’t need to service the fuel injectors as often. With improved engines and catalytic converters e can live just fine without the EPA mandated fuel mix and the reduced cost for good gasoline is welcomed.
Now if we could just get rid of the E10 mandate - a colossal waste of money and resources that degrades fuel mileage while damaging small engines.
Correct. Throw out the E20 as well. Try running B20 or even B5 in your old diesel rig.
That ethanol doesn't combust the same as the pure form. I'm getting 8% better mpg
on my Power Stroke with R99 - and no smoke! Never did like corn in my fuel tank!
This is interesting positioning for Trump. The next president has to come in and either permanently change policy to remove these expensive requirements or he/she has to reinstate them and immediately increase prices. Smart move on his part.
I doubt that there was a valid reason in 1990 for the RVP -
most likely, like all govt studies, highly conflicted with the answer known before done
Maybe not for the program as it was implemented, but summer haze was a very real problem with very real potential health impacts. Anyone who lived in a big metro area in a warmer climate during those years will remember the "heat inversion" days when we'd get this layer of haze just a few hundred feed up during rush hours. Like it or not, the EPA program has been effective in dramatically reducing it.
Los Angeles and Denver were bad and did get better. One big problem is the idling engine emissions. Get the traffic moving and reduce the time the engine is running also helped. But there’s no reason to punish the rest of the population!
Bingo Zeldin has a nice ring to it. In May we bought a new Corolla ICE that gets
50 mpg on the highway. Our 32 year old Corolla is still on the job, but guess
which one puts out less in emissions? That's with or without the stupid blends forced on us.
They don’t take effect until 9/1 and expire 15 days later? And States can ignore them? But they’ve been in effect since May 1st? I’m not following. This just sounds like a bunch of hand waving to me. End the requirement completely and prohibit States from implementing their own requirements. That’s the way to do it.
It's a 20-day waiver because that is the maximum allowed under the law. It can be re-extended if the situation warrants, just like the Jones Act extensions the President has done.
My vehicles get 20% better fuel mileage burning non alcohol fuel - mostly E10. The cost is higher so my operating cost is a wash. The benefit is realized when i don’t need to service the fuel injectors as often. With improved engines and catalytic converters e can live just fine without the EPA mandated fuel mix and the reduced cost for good gasoline is welcomed.
I'd be happy to see summer blends become a thing of the past and save billions of dollars of effort and waste.
I am sure the increased in cancer deaths and impacts to people with respiratory ailments canard will be coming out shortly from the usual suspects.