Thu, Jan 27, 2005
Organization Wants Help In Fighting 10-Percent Ethanol
Requirement In Auto Gas
EAA Government Services e-mailed an
e-Alert to its Montana members this week asking for their help to
amend legislation that mandates all gasoline sold to consumers for
use in motor vehicles contain 10 percent denatured ethanol. EAA is
concerned because there are many aircraft that cannot operate
safely on fuel blended with ethanol products.
More than 600 airplanes registered in Montana operate on an
FAA-approved auto-fuel supplemental type certificate (STC), as do
many ultralight vehicles and amateur-built aircraft whose engines
require auto fuel. In addition, all future Special Light-Sport
airplanes are designed per ASTM/FAA standards to operate on
unleaded gasoline.
State Senator Jerry Black’s recently introduced amendment
to Senate Bill No. 144 and Governor Brian Schweitzer’s
amendment to LC 1764 both add an exemption section to this bill to
allow nonethanol-blended fuel to be sold to consumers for specific
uses - collector vehicles, airplanes, boats, motorcycles and
snowmobiles.
While these amendments are a step in
the right direction, gas station operators will likely not install
special tanks and pumps strictly to dispense nonethanol-blended
gasoline. EAA wants to ensure that the state’s fuel
consumers, including pilots, have ready access to the fuel they
need, so it is promoting an amendment to identify premium gasoline
as the ideal fuel for these activities and exempt that fuel from
the ethanol requirements.
EAA wants its Montana members to contact their elected officials
to change the amendment to simply read, "A gasoline retailer may
hold, store, import, transfer, distribute, offer for sale or use
nonethanol-blended unleaded premium grade gasoline with an
antiknock index (AKI) number of ninety-one (91) or greater."
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