The ever-controversial topic of ethanol-blend gasolines, in this instance E15, has again surfaced, this time in the motorcycle community. The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) issued a release today stating that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will require “all consumers to buy at least four gallons of gasoline from certain gas pumps after the new E15 (up to 15 percent ethanol by volume) ethanol-gasoline blend is introduced into the market.”
Ethanol is essentially grain alcohol produced from crops such as corn that is mixed with gasoline to produce an ethanol-gasoline blend motor fuel.
The AMA’s government relations arm has been keeping tabs on the subject of ethanol-blend fuels, and explains that the EPA recently revealed the mandate in response to a letter from the AMA.