Brazil Pushes Fuel Mandate Up To E30 - America Should Do The Same!

Ethanol Is The Fuel Of The Future, But It's Available Today

Marc Rauch

By Marc J. Rauch
Author of THE ETHANOL PAPERS and YES, TIN LIZZIE WAS AN ALCOHOLIC
Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher
THE AUTO CHANNEL

Beginning next week, August 1st, Brazil's nationally mandated internal combustion engine fuel will increase to E30, which is a blend of 30% ethanol and 70% poison (also known as: gasoline or petrol).

Brazil's current mandated blend minimum of E27 was set in 2015. For about two decades before that, Brazil's minimum nationally mandated gasoline-product ranged from E20 to E25. Their use of ethanol-gasoline blends dates back to 1928.

The major significance of Brazil's use of higher ethanol-gasoline blends is that their land and water vehicles are the same as the standard vehicles used in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Therefore, despite all the lies and myths about ethanol damaging engines and causing undue loss of MPG results, this history proves that all spark-ignited internal combustion engine vehicles (common cars, trucks, motorcycles, and boats) could safely, efficiently, and economically use higher ethanol-gasoline blends.

Simply stated, if a non-flex fuel Ford/GM/Chrysler/Honda/Toyota/VW/BMW/Fiat vehicle can routinely rely on E20+ fuels on the streets of Brazil, then they can do so on any street in America, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, India, Japan, Australia, and many more. The same is true for all Mercury Marine-powered boats on the waters of all these countries.

Brazil does have a classification of flex fuel vehicles, but they don't rely on E85 blends. They are called "total flex" vehicles and they can use E95 to E100.

In addition to Brazil's long history of safe, efficient, and economical use of ethanol-gasoline blends in standard vehicles, other countries also have extensive histories of ethanol fuel use. I documented this in my report:

The Hypocrisy of Big Oil

You can also watch my presentation of this report at the 2018 Renewable Fuels Association annual conference:

THE BOTTOM LINE

What this all means is that there is absolutely, positively, without doubt or any equivocation, no reason why E30 should not be the nationally mandated regular fuel right here in the good ole U.S.A. As I reported several years ago, Brazil has been planning to mandate E40 by the year 2030. The United States should at least be on this same trajectory.

Additionally, support for the immediate move to mandating E30 and higher blends comes from the many studies conducted over the last 100 years that verify the validity of using higher blends. The studies include the famous U.S. Geological Survey/U.S. Navy tests, the French Buses report, the Wayne State University test, the Glacial Lakes E30 Challenge, and my hundreds of tests with non-flex fuel and flex fuel vehicles.

For those concerned about the negative lies and myths of ethanol fuel use, I've got a 600-page book for you to read, it's called THE ETHANOL PAPERS. You can buy a copy from Amazon or Barnes and Noble, but you don't have to because you can read it all for FREE online by CLICKING HERE.

THE BIG FINALE

Since it's always nice to leave the audience singing and dancing, here are four songs I created and produced very early this morning. I hope you enjoy at least one: