If America was a person on a raft dying of thirst then we're at the part where they start gulping down ocean water.
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MAGA started drinking the ocean water a long time ago because woke lib science told them it was dangerous.
This also increases pollution
Fucking assholes.
This is stupid. You have to use so much fucking gas to farm those fields. It just adds to the load.
And you simply end up buying more gas because it's less efficient if your car doesn't take it. So demand will actually increase. Which makes sense when you realize whose in charge.
How about all those people who paid extra for the cars that burn E85... To get less mpg
Financial literacy is very not common in government... Even less so with the population
Water down the gas, then contaminate the water with in a AI data center. Art of the deal! We will be so much winning you might get tried of all the winner! 🫲🍊🫱
If only AI data centres had to pay $5 a gallon for gasoline to power their equipment and we could use free clean water to power our vehicles.
Theyre going to use distilled water so it’s ok.
Real benefit: Combustion motor life cycle shortened enhancing planned obsolescence for manufacturer product cycles and future sales. Diluted gas is less efficient and despite paying less you’re actually paying more both near and long term. So much winning.
I drive a 2018 wrx with a very modest etune. It's tuned for longevity as it's not even an hp gain. This will be difficult to run in my car.
Why? It raises the octane, so you can run more boost easily. It just requires more fuel delivery because it has lower energy density. Are you near injector or fuel pump flow limits?
Fortunately, us Americans suck at math. A consequence of our “world class” public education.
20th percentile, surely
Why would you want a 1/3 pounder when you can have 1/4 pounder
Republicans vote to hide their fuckup at a cost to the American people
Again
However, while the E15 rollout can lower prices, ethanol does contains less energy than gasoline, so eventually with E15, a driver will end up burning more fuel for the same amount of distance, albeit fuel which is slightly cheaper than standard gasoline.
MAGAs are dumb enough to think they're getting some kind of deal
I’m also concerned a lot of them will drink it.
"I used to only fit $50 of gas in my truck, now I can fit $100. Lol checkmate libs"
Ethanol also rots the internal works of your vehicle so vehicles will disintegrate and people will be forced to buy new vehicles in 2027+ which will all have mandatory big brother spyware.
Most vehicles made past about 2004 are all ethanol safe up to maybe E20. You ideally shouldn't, but e15 won't ruin them.
Anything older though... God have mercy on your soul.
Those '90s civics still puttering around finally gonna get put in the grave.
They'd probably just go through a fuel pump and a fresh filter and then be fine lol.
Dude you could run those things off dirty vegetable oil and they'd still go. The only things more indestructible than a '90s Civic is a Corolla from any year.
Or a Hilux. Or a 90s Nokia.
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They'll do this but refuse to support renewable energy
Well yeah, their entire lives have been spent sucking oil dick, their entire foundation of their wealth is tied up in oil, and even though they're rich enough to pivot entirely and never feel a difference in their lives, they're stuck in the sunk cost mentality.
It's too risky to invest in a brand new industry that's on shaky legs. Never mind that it stopped being a "new" industry decades ago and has proven it will do quite well, and is thriving. They stopped paying attention to real life many many decades ago. As far as they are concerned, they didn't have to do any sort of personal growth, so they are woefully out of touch with reality.
Oil is what was there when they (or their parents they inherited wealth from) were kids, so obviously they have to dig their heels in to keep oil from flopping. Anything else is secondary.
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Just wait until they try to dilute your electricity down to 100V. /s
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This is literally the exact same kind of thing as USSR-aligned countries would do in the 80s. Back then it was "stupid communism", but today it's "glorious capitalism".
USA gas? Its already shite.
Everyone else votes to dilute Republicans.
You can't make this shit up....
They support pollution and money. They can't make money off renewable energy.
They absolutely can, just not as much, and not in the ways they're used to. They've invested heavily in oil based products up to and including fighting many many wars as well as shaping their entire international policy around it.
They could pivot to renewables, something several Democrats started the process of doing, but until the pivot completes their profits would take a nose dive (plus the massive losses from the heavy investment into oil refineries). Even then though the unfortunate crux of the matter is that rare earth metals are an increasingly vital component of all future technology and the biggest deposits of those are all very inconveniently placed from a US perspective (almost exclusively within the territory of countries the US has a somewhat poor relationship with).
You know it's pretty neat they can use shrinkflation on gasoline sold by the gallon, i didn't know that was possible!
I don’t think many people on here are into classic cars much, but if they allow more ethanol in gas that’s going to fuck up a pretty large amount of classic cars. Modern fuel lines are plastic to deal with the ethanol and impact resistance. before that we used rubber, and the current widely used (cheap) replacement fuel hose tolerates ethanol at the levels we had well enough for a few years.
So there’s a decent chance this would burn down a bunch of cars (and boats) when the fuel lines dissolve from the ethanol and start spilling gas.
It's not just classic cars, cars from the 2000s have rubber fuel lines as well.
Oh lord. Are 2000s cars classic cars now? Someone take me out back and shoot me.
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this act of central planning brought to you by the party of Free Markets(TM)
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Sounds like a good way to ruin an engine.
My vehicle will take E85 and I've tried it just to save money. Stick with regular gasoline what you save at the pump will cost you in far more refills. Horrible gas mileage
When you expect more (bam bam), from a litre.
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