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From refinery, to delivery trucks, to your storage tank, chances for diesel fuel contamination are ever present
Most of us know that clean fuel is necessary for the high-pressure common rail fuel injectors (HPCR) used in today’s Tier 4 Final engines. Fuel system pressures approaching 40,000 psi require particle filtration as small as one or two microns. The problem is that as fuel system requirements are becoming more stringent, actual diesel fuel […]
September 14, 2015
Business
Energy, fuel and the federal regulatory tsunami dominate the conversation at the 2013 Construction Symposium
Contractors and heavy equipment fleet managers got an earful of what challenges await them in the construction industry and what the solutions might be at the Randall Reilly Construction Symposium held Wednesday and Thursday in Dallas, Texas. In a nutshell—the shale oil and gas revolution is going to be great for the construction industry, but […]
August 23, 2013
Roadbuilding
Supreme Court passes on hearing challenge of EPA’s E15 approval
The Supreme Court last week declined to hear a challenge of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) November approval of E15, a gasoline that contains up to 15 percent ethanol, our sister site, Equipment World, reported. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and other organizations challenged a lower court’s decision to uphold the EPA’s approval of E15. […]
July 2, 2013
Construction Equipment
Supreme Court declines to hear challenge of EPA’s approval of E15
Lost in the shuffle of much bigger headlines last week was the Supreme Court’s decision to pass on hearing a challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s November approval of E15. E15 is gasoline that contains up 15 percent ethanol and is fairly controversial. Right now, most service stations use gasoline blended with up 10 percent ethanol. […]
July 2, 2013
Maintenance
Ethanol a suspect in corrosion from Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel
Since the introduction of Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel in 2007, a growing number of diesel storage tanks and dispensing systems have experienced unusual and accelerated corrosion problems. The kind of corrosion that might take 10 or 20 years previously was showing up in as little as 30 to 60 days, says Edward English, vice president […]
February 1, 2013
Equipment
Maine considers ban on E15 gasoline
The state of Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection is at work on a bill that would ban gasoline blends with more than 10 percent ethanol, according to the Bangor Daily News. The bill has not yet be written and would only be pursued if two other New England states go along with the notion. While […]
January 17, 2013
Equipment
EPA ruling on E15 gasoline is irresponsible
After months of careful and objective deliberation, weighing evidence from only the most knowledgeable and impartial scientists, environmentalists and industry leaders, the EPA has rendered judgement on the issue of ethanol blended gasoline. The short answer: Screw you, little people. The long answer: ”The agency has not found evidence to support a finding of severe […]
November 20, 2012
Construction Equipment
The effects of E15 on small gas engines (GIE+Expo)
We're live this week from GIE+Expo in Louisville, Kentucky and had a chance to hear comments from Outdoor Power Equipment Institute President Kris Kiser on the negative effects of E15 gasoline (gas with 15 percent ethanol) in small gas engines.
October 31, 2012
Equipment
Small engine fuel maker takes on ethanol
The EPA now is permitting 15 percent ethanol. E15 “destroys small engines,” said Kris Kiser, president and CEO of the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute
October 29, 2012
Construction Equipment
Head of OPEI speaks out against ethanol
ethanol, corn based ethanol, small engines, EPA
July 23, 2012
Equipment
EPA creeps up on E15
Despite the strenuous objections from every auto, motorcycle and small engine manufacturer in the United States, the Environmental Protection agency is pushing forward in its quest to ramp up the ethanol content in gasoline to 15 percent. The agency announced today that it has “approved the first applications for registration of ethanol for use in […]
April 2, 2012
Business
Maintenance
Alcohol Poisoning Ethanol is bad for engines, a big tax subsidy for corporations and bad for the environment. So why does EPA want to make us use more of it? By Tom Jackson Ethanol is a great social lubricant. It puts the buzz in booze, but it has the opposite effect on engines – especially […]
October 5, 2011
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