EPA postpones more ethanol in gasoline

[The Straight Story]

EPA postpones more ethanol in gasoline

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will postpone allowing any increase in the amount of ethanol in gasoline until it can determine the impact.

The Union of Concerned Scientists applauded the Tuesday decision, saying more ethanol in gasoline could increase tailpipe pollution or damage older vehicles.

The EPA announcement was in response to a petition filed by Growth Energy, an ethanol industry group, which asked the agency to increase the amount of ethanol allowed in gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent.

"The Obama administration is respecting the role of science and resisting industry pressure to put private interests ahead of public health and the environment," said Jeremy Martin, a senior scientist in UCS' Clean Vehicles Program. "Raising ethanol blend percentages without testing what it would do to air quality and vehicle engines is like going in for surgery before getting a diagnosis. It wouldn't be good for the industry or the environment to rush ahead only to find out later that we guessed wrong."

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/12/01/EPA-postpones-more-ethanol-in-gasoline/UPI-17511259691010/

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1. Even still they ignore the real issue

food riots in 14 different countries (which you won't hear in the media), contributed to in no small part because of the huge swath of agricultural land devoted to this nonsense.