Ford's answers to the NHTSA 6.7 Investigation

NewsW wrote:
All this talk about biology and multiplication got me thinking about high temperatures and the failure.

Do we have a biological cause here?

Go to the states with the highest rates of failure...are they places with mandatory biodiesel content?

No... California and it's oil lobby was quick to work with CARB to shut down biodiesel as a fuel, it was ruled to only be allowed as a fuel extender or an additive, to use it neat, one had to get a form filled out that they knew it was an experimental fuel only, and that one was on their own if fuel systems damage occurred. Farm belt countries with lobbyists for farmers were the ones that mandated biodiesel, places or states that produced musicians like Prince or Obama, as well as what I call salmon states, states with high annual rains or snows, and the run off from them that salmon love to spawn in, WA and OR. Liberal, earth movement, Green Peace type hotbeds, to my knowledge, have always promoted the Bill of Goods Biodiesel promised to deliver, yet failed. Cleaner? Ask waste treatment management plants all the trouble they've had with home brewers, excess glycerine to process, and excess sodium lye to handle as by products from biodiesel production. It's not green at all.

Is there anything to do with biodiesel use?

In the surveys provided by TDIclub, almost to a one, everyone that had a HPFP used zero additives. Folks just didn't have time to dink around with that stuff at the pump, they were driving, time was either money, or time off of work being wasted, from long commutes.

Could the high temperatures also cause an explosive growth of microorganisms --- especially with the addition of added water?

Need a microbiologist to chase this --- how do biodiesel degrade... chemically vs. biologically?

What microbes feast on it?

What are their waste products?

Is it filtered out? Or is it? What if it is a reactive substance that is diesel (dino) soluble?

Got to start asking questions here.