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EPA's four-gallon minimum mandate - The Hill's Congress Blog
EPA requires that retail stations that own or operate blender pumps either dispense E15 from a dedicated hose and nozzle if able or, in the case of E15 and E10 being dispensed from the same hose, require that at least four gallons of fuel be purchased to prevent vehicles and engines with smaller fuel tanks from being exposed to gasoline-ethanol blended fuels containing greater than 10 volume percent ethanol.
Government sees a problem that doesn't really exist (oil shortage) so it creates a solution (gasohol). The solution damages engines so government recognizes that problem and mandates a solution, FORCING us to buy at least four gallons at a time from many gas stations to dilute the harmful ethanol.
Ride a motorcycle or want to fill up a gas can? Too bad. Either find a station that has dedicated nozzles for E10 and E15 or....I don't know...give away the balance of your gas purchase to the next guy in line?
The EPA's first-ever mandated purchase requirement appears to have been conceived outside the normal regulatory process, making this unprecedented government overreach even more offensive.
Yep, mandates enacted by faceless, unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats.
Anybody see a problem here with the rapidly increasing size and power of government?
Since when is government able to force us to buy something we don't want or need? Oh yeah, thanks Justice Roberts. Shouldn't the EPA call it a tax though so it's legal?
EPA Institutes Minimum Gas Purchase Requirement For Some Stations - By Betsy Woodruff - The Corner - National Review Online
It's a historic moment for the EPA, though, as they've never actually forced people to buy anything before. "The EPA's first-ever mandated purchase requirement appears to have been conceived outside the normal regulatory process," Sensenbrenner wrote, "making this unprecedented government overreach even more offensive." He added that the White House pushed E15 into the marketplace, despite the serious problems it can cause for drivers of old cars and motorcycles. It's just another great example of how ugly things get when unelected bureaucrats involve themselves in the most minute decisions of individuals, like how much gas they want to buy and whether or not they want to have corn in it.