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The fight against E15 is heating up as a group of automakers have joined together to file a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to make available higher blends of ethanol for newer vehicles.

Ford, General Motors and Chrysler represent Detroit as part of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which also includes Jaguar, Land Rover, Porsche, BMW, Toyota, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Volkswagen and Volvo. The Auto Alliance is now part of a lawsuit that includes the International Automobile Manufacturers, the National Marine Manufacturers Association and the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute.

The groups are looking to overturn the EPA's decision to grant a partial waiver for E15. Besides the environmental and possible vehicular effects that E15 can cause, the idea that the EPA can even grant a partial waiver is also being questioned. Thanks for the tip, Jesse!

[Source: Detroit News - sub. req.]Report: Detroit carmakers join lawsuit against EPA looking to overturn E15 approval originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.



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Hope they get it overturned... Kind of hard to keep increasing mileage when you're decreasing energy content of the fuel.
 
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Ethanol is also showing to be not a very good long term solution either.

I'm also not quite sure I get this.

E85 as been around for a long time and so have been flex-fuel vehicles. If ethanol is the culprit and if E15 contains a lot less of it, what is the problem? Manufacturers just wanna be able to produce 100% gasoline engines with no ethanol compatibility what so ever?
 
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E15 would replace the current regular unleaded which is E10 (90% gas and 10% ethanol). E85 would stay the same. The car makers are really against it because more ethanol = lower mpg. At the same time the feds allow this they're also mandating higher MPG requirements. It's like telling someone they have to get in better shape but they can't work out as much as they do now.
 
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