Ford's answers to the NHTSA 6.7 Investigation
There was a request for a link to Ford's answer's to the NHTSA investigation posted on a previous thread, since closed. Here is the link: Ford's NHTSA Answers to the 6.7 investigation This PDF i...
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The elephant in the room is biofuels, and the widespread availability of biofuels that are not to spec or above the maximum level approved.
Biofuels is a highly perishable product that do not store well, and is easily contaminated if it is made to spec to begin with.
Until very recently, there were hardly any standards and auditing of biofuel makers, and no doubt, during the great boom that ended in 2008, tons of junk were made and flogged.
The stuff may be good in laboratory conditions, but in the real world, biofuels have too many pathways to screw up --- and no doubt it did plenty of that.
But the lobby of subsidized farmers making the stuff is well organized, shrill, and they got their hands into federal and state and local gov. pockets picking them clean of subsidies and having their stuff mandated.
With the price of regular diesel plunging and likely to be stable for decades, who needs it?
But try to get the biofuel mandates out now that it is in.
Biofuels is a highly perishable product that do not store well, and is easily contaminated if it is made to spec to begin with.
Until very recently, there were hardly any standards and auditing of biofuel makers, and no doubt, during the great boom that ended in 2008, tons of junk were made and flogged.
The stuff may be good in laboratory conditions, but in the real world, biofuels have too many pathways to screw up --- and no doubt it did plenty of that.
But the lobby of subsidized farmers making the stuff is well organized, shrill, and they got their hands into federal and state and local gov. pockets picking them clean of subsidies and having their stuff mandated.
With the price of regular diesel plunging and likely to be stable for decades, who needs it?
But try to get the biofuel mandates out now that it is in.
