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Next from the EPA: Four-Gallon-Minimum Gas Purchases : For ATVs and Motorcycles-

The Environmental Protection Agencyis going to require all consumers to buy at least four gallons of gasoline from certain gas pumps after the new E15 ethanol-gasoline blend is

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introduced into the market.(/)

The new regulation was revealed in an Aug. 1 letter to the American Motorcyclist Association, which expressed concern that the vast majority of Motorcycles and ATVsin use today aren’t designed

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to operate on E15 fuel and residual fuel from a pump that serves multiple blends might harm these tanks.

“The use of E15 will lower fuel efficiency and possibly cause premature engine failure,” Wayne Allard, AMA vice president for government relations, wrote in a June 20 letter to EPA Administrator

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Lisa Jackson. “Use of E15 fuel voids many manufacturer warranties. In off-road engines, the effects can even be dangerous for users.”

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com …

via Next from the EPA: Four-Gallon-Minimum Gas Purchases : For ATVs and Motorcycles-.

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