EPA Ready To Break Consumers Of Using Crap Gas - Higher Octane Fuel To Be Mandated

Raising the octane in gasoline -- seen as a way to improve fuel economy and reduce emissions in today’s high-tech turbocharged, direct-injected engines -- looks like it will get some attention from the EPA.

That’s the good news.

Now for the bad: It’s going to take a while.

Higher octane gasoline likely won’t be available until the next set of fuel economy and emissions standards take effect after 2025. The deliberations about how high to raise octane are still probably a few years off. But the lobbying is starting to gain traction.

Dan Nicholson, General Motors’ vice president of global propulsion systems, told me recently he could boost fuel economy in most engines by about 5 percent if America had the same higher octane gasoline as Europe. Nicholson has raised the issue at industry events as have his counterparts at Ford, Fiat Chrysler and other automakers.

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800over - 8/24/2016 10:21:48 AM

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Then the first thing they need to do is get rid of Ethanol. Stuff kills your fuel economy.

TomM - 8/24/2016 12:17:26 PM

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Sorry - I think the first thing they need to do is get rid of CAFE standards completely. They only work in time of high gas prices - when people will actually but a smaller car. Today - with low gas prices - when adjusted for inflation - they are actually lower than they were in 1931 - people are buying Behemoth monsters - and they don' car about CAFE at all.

vdiv - 8/24/2016 10:51:00 PM

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Double sorry, the first, first thing they need to get rid of is fuel and move to all-electrics by 2025 :)

skytop - 8/24/2016 7:33:37 PM

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Once again the government is messing in things it has no clue about. This is all driven by ideologues pressing their political agenda. It has nothing to do with economy but all to do with the insane progressive liberal religion that is rapidly ruining the country in so many ways.

Terry989 - 8/24/2016 8:14:52 PM

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Time to put down Jim Jones's Republican Cult cool-aide, we've seen the previous outcome.

MDarringer - 8/24/2016 10:44:48 PM

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@skytop, I see the same idiotic hemorrhoid is clamped to your arse too.

Terry989 - 8/25/2016 12:04:30 AM

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Madly Deranged Darringer takes the bait again - - - absolutely no control. Now you are just sweating it out that I'll kick your mental ass once again until your nut-less scrotum crawls up into your body cavity. On the bright side, you will once again discover that tiny willie and masturbate to those Bradly GT based TVRs that women drive.

TheSteve - 8/25/2016 1:06:32 AM

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Higher octane gasoline means only one thing: It is more resistant to detonation than lower-octane gas. That's significant only if you are using higher compression ratios, or cylinder charging (e.g.,supercharger, turbocharger, etc.) and/or the engine is under unusually heavy loads, like pulling a heavy trailer up-hill.

There are a number of gasoline engines made today that deliver respectable fuel economy using regular unleaded gas (RUG). Honda makes some good examples. This makes them doubly appealing: going farther on a gallon of gas, and each gallon of gas costs less. This can add up to considerable cost savings.

Putting in a higher octane fuel into an engine that does not need it (i.e., does not benefit from the higher octane rating) does not magically release more horsepower, or make it a cleaner running engine. Actual tests on foreign and domestic cars, with 8/6/4 cyl., automatic and standard transmissions, saw that only *some* cars got a *tiny* increase in power. Emissions were not affected significantly.