Iowa State Senate President Pushing To Remove Ethanol Labeling On Gas Pumps - DMR

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The president of the Iowa Senate thinks if the ethanol identification stickers were removed from gasoline pumps at stations in the state, motorists would buy more of the corn-based fuel.

State Sen. Jack Kibbie said legislation he has introduced that would allow gas stations to remove the labels would apply only to E10, which is 10 percent ethanol. E85, biodiesel and other renewable fuels would still have to be labeled on the pump. Businesses would decide on their own whether to remove the E10 labels, which are required now.

Kibbie said E10 ethanol blends account for 73 percent of gasoline sales in Iowa, a percentage that hasn't risen the past few years. He is trying to mask the contents in part so out-of-staters who don't burn with the same fervor for ethanol as, say, the corn growers in Iowa, will buy it anyway. Kansas made a similar move, and ethanol sales soared.

"My goal is to increase the use of ethanol in Iowa," said Kibbie, a Democrat from Emmetsburg who requested the bill, Senate File 2137. "Sometimes, people driving through Iowa on the interstates, who don't know as much about ethanol as we do, see those stickers and say, 'I don't want any of that stuff!' So they put in high octane fuel that costs 10 cents a gallon more."

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http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080215/NEWS/802150372/1001

[GliderGuider]

1. Abandon hope

[liberal N proud]

2. But those pumps boast higher octane level at the same price as unleaded

How is removing the label going to boost the sale? Deception?

[phantom power]

3. How Straussian of him.

:eyes:

[deminwi]

4. My 1 year old car broke down because of E10

My car was a fantastic car before I accident ly put E10 into my gas tank. The day after I put E10 into my fuel tank my car broke down on the interstate!! I had to have my gas tank emptied, fuel lines cleaned out, the fuel injectors cleaned, and the fuel filter replaced...a couple of hundred dollars that I just loved spending, BTW. Since that incident a couple of months ago, and me being careful not to put that crap into my fuel tank, my car has been running great ever since the clean out of the E10 crap.

I will be letting my wife know that a planned summer vacation to Iowa will not be happening this year. I will not risk any further engine trouble to my car just to feed the ego of the Iowa farmers and politicians. We'll stay in WI this year....a state that has the E10 clearly labeled.

[sybylla]

5. Interesting - just the opposite of my experience - in Wisconsin

I put E10 in my 1988 Cavelier Z24 almost exclusively for the last 7 years that I owned it. Sold it to my mother cheap with 145,000 miles on it. She drove it for another 20,000 and sold it to someone else who drove it for a couple more years. Never any trouble with it.

Have been putting E10 in all my vehicles whenever I can. Never had any trouble with them.

Now, getting dirty gas from a bad station, that will fuck with your gas lines.

By the way, hope you don't use any of that gasline antifreeze - it's either ethanol or methanol and will give you the same effect as driving on E10.

[deminwi]

6. Let's hope it was bad gas from the station

The situation just seemed to be relational, but maybe the station just received a fresh batch of gas the stirred up the crap from the bottom of the storage tank. Who knows, I guess I can stop carrying a chip on my shoulder and try it out from another station and see what happens....you know what, probably nothing bad will happen.

Great, now I sound like an ass clown from 'sconsin.