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Should US congress mandate vehicles sold in our country be E85 compliant?
Should US congress mandate vehicles sold in our country be E85 compliant?
By mandating all vehicles be able to use either gasoline, or ethanol, methanol, and giving the consumer the choice to buy more than one fuel, would that in itself start to control the price by introducing some competition in the fuel market?
I mean mandate that all vehicles that are offered for sale in the US be Flex fuel compatible, so YOU can choose, thus driving a competition for new fuel manufacturing concepts like synthetic development, alternate production methods, I would rather give my $$ to people that invent mew technology than giving it to a bunch of people that pull in out of the ground and support terrorism( .Saudi Arabia
By making every car E85 you could use either fuel sources, it's kind of like if all you could eat were apples and then the apple crop failed and only one place in the world sold apples, you would have to pay out the a## for apples, If you could eat oranges too, you could switch to oranges untill the apples were available again.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
In my opinion, most of our elected representatives can't even figure out how to be representative.
I don't thnk they are capabve of understanding most things that affect we common people (constituents).
I shudder to think what could be "mandated".
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No!!!!! Not until they come up with an inexpensive source of ethanol, at least. Also, there will be NO competition in the marketplace unless there is a mandate that vehicles CAN'T use petroleum based fuel. The oil companies control the government to a certain extent.
- richard bLv 61 decade ago
actually congress has already done that. in one of the energy bills signed into law by president bush mandating that the country produce more ethanol. that same bill forced the automakers to make a certain percentage of their fleet to be flex fuel vehicles. besides the automakers have been doing that since the mid 90's anyway.
- Bob HLv 71 decade ago
Nope. Only in Iowa. By the time a tanker drives down to So. Cal. to deliver a load, it's already burnt up more that the profits. And mileage is said to be about 30% less than gas.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Only the corn lobby thinks that it would be a good idea.
