Science current event #2

In this article, it talks about how the Environmental Protection Agency decided to put more ethanol oil in gas tanks. They said that raising the 10 percent ethanol in gasoline to 15 percent was needed to meet requirements for more ethanol production, and that cars or trucks, from a 2001 model, was able to use the oil without any harm done to the vehicles. Shortly after, they stopped. The EPA is sure that the approval of the higher blend, will be made, but the decision of using higher blend, is disapproved by the automakers and others, which think that it will harm the cars. However, the Ethanol makers are sure that the higher blend is safe and have research to prove it. So, the "EPA, should immediately approve the ethanol blend," says Bob Dinneen, the group’s president.

My opinion about using Ethanol oil in cars or trucks is that let the EPA take its time and think everything thru, because if they make a decision in a hurry, they will never know what will happen, and if the research is wrong, they will be in really big trouble. So, the EPA, should prove the blend in more depth, and be more on the safer side, then being wrong and getting a big loss.

SOURCE: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/1605773.html