Heed Caution While Refueling
May 11, 2021
The need is back for boat dealers to again remind their customers that ethanol in gasoline should be avoided when possible.
Corn is now our nation’s biggest cash crop, with about 40 percent of the yield going to producing the gasoline additive. It follows that boating should brace for another round of ethanol producers pushing for more ethanol in gasoline, buoyed by the improving economy and lots of expected bioenergy-friendly regulations coming from the Biden administration.
According to reports in the
Wall Street Journal, families will again be hitting America’s highways after being held down for a year by Covid. That’s good for the corn farmers and great for ethanol producers. During the pandemic when overall gas consumption dropped, little was heard from the ethanol producers.