More right than you know.
The EPA responded that it requires that retail stations with blender pumps either dispense E15 from a dedicated hose and nozzle if able or, in the case of E15 and E10 being dispensed from the same hose, require that at least four gallons of fuel be purchased to prevent vehicles and engines with smaller fuel tanks from being exposed to gasoline-ethanol blended fuels containing greater than 10 percent ethanol.
Apparently the EPA expects the rubes to not figure out the above statement is a physical impossibility.
However, I do not believe that is the entire intent.
If four gallons is mandated to be used at every visit to the gas station for ALL consumers then what is being done is making any statistically measurable differences in mechanical failures between E10 and E15 users much harder to detect.
The Russians did the same thing with contaminated meat from Chernobyl...
* The amount of radiation considered safe was increased tenfold by the government two weeks after the accident with Politburo approval, to reduce the number of people who would have to be examined, treated and perhaps hospitalized.
* Milk and meat from the contaminated area were deliberately mixed with those from other regions and distributed around the country so they could be sold. Regulations on acceptable radiation levels again were changed with Politburo approval.
An estimated 47,500 tons of "dirty" meat and 2 million tons of milk with radioactive levels higher than had been allowed for human consumption were shipped from the region from 1986 through 1989 and mixed with clean meat and milk for sale under this directive, according to government officials quoted by Izvestia.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-04-25/news/mn-883_1_chernobyl-documents
When such a distribution occurs what is being done is making any statistically measurable differences in occurrences of cancer between contaminated areas and non-contaminated areas much harder to detect.
And with that we see that our current administration's EPA is thinking exactly like the old Soviet Union Politburo.
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Who do you think is coaching them?