E15, So What Do We Do?

Howdy,
As I'm sure most of us are aware of the impending mandate for E15, so what do we do when it may happen? Not to comment on the current political situation with the EPA and the Interior but it may be closer than we think. So, do we just try to avoid it, use it when we have to, can we buy some additive to counter react what gloom and doom we've been told may happen and how will the manufacturer's respond to warranty claims that may be associated with E15?
Later,
Norm

gloucesterman said:

Howdy,
As I'm sure most of us are aware of the impending mandate for E15, so what do we do when it may happen? Not to comment on the current political situation with the EPA and the Interior but it may be closer than we think. So, do we just try to avoid it, use it when we have to, can we buy some additive to counter react what gloom and doom we've been told may happen and how will the manufacturer's respond to warranty claims that may be associated with E15?
Later,
Norm

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The last I saw E-15 is not approved for any motorcycles and many cars. I expect E-10 to be around for a long while. I personally expect the entire ethanol mandate to go away before E15 becomes universal; but I have been wrong before.

I know there was talk about 15% but thought a mandate to force use of the stuff was shot down by auto manufacturers and public reaction.
Locally it's not hard to get non-diluted (recreational) gas so we are rarely forced to use even the 10% swill in our bikes, boats, mowers, or old cars.
FWIW, 10% seems to work OK in a 1200GS, but I would put bigger jets in any older carbureted bike forced to use it to compensate for a leaner burn.

If ethanol in gas really bothers you or your bike, it's fairly simple to extract the alcohol from pump gas:
http://www.ethanil.co.uk/

Am aware of no impending E15 mandate and find it unlikely. Got any data?

With today’s EPA announcement that they are easing the previously planned future auto emissions standards I doubt E-15 is in our future. I did not hear any comment in the announcement about ethanol, but the approach to emissions mandates has obviously changed.

Hi,
It has nothing to do with the EPA, it has to do with the corn lobby and the oil lobby. The oil industry is closing refineries and blaming the Renewable Fuel Act and the purchase of RFC's (credits) as the culprit. So our current administration is trying to broker a deal between two of its biggest $ contributors. The corn lobby may back a change in the law to drop the RIN's in exchange for allowing more ethanol in our gas and in some states where E15 is sold during the summer to allow it be sold year round. Then you add in blender pumps, one nozzle dispensing E10 and E15, and you are going to get a lot more E15 than you think in your small gas tank if that is what the person before you pumped. So I believe it is an issue with no one offering a solution.
Later,
Norm