DOT warning----Ethanol/gas mixtures
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DOT warning----Ethanol/gas mixtures
Emergency Response Warning Issued for Gasoline-Alcohol Fuel Mixtures
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DOT is alerting emergency responders to appropriate emergency response guidance for responding to incidents involving fuel mixtures composed of ethanol and gasoline. The most common of these fuels is designated E85 (85% ethanol and 15% gasoline), recently has begun to be used in volume in the Midwest, primarily in the states of Illinois and Minnesota.
Fires involving E85 and other ethanol/alcohol mixtures containing more than 15% ethanol should be treated differently than traditional gasoline fires because these mixtures are polar/water miscible flammable liquids (they mix readily with water) and will degrade the effectiveness of fire-fighting foam which is not alcohol-resistant. For this reason, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration recommends the use of alcohol-resistant foam to fight fires involving these fuel mixtures.
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DOT is alerting emergency responders to appropriate emergency response guidance for responding to incidents involving fuel mixtures composed of ethanol and gasoline. The most common of these fuels is designated E85 (85% ethanol and 15% gasoline), recently has begun to be used in volume in the Midwest, primarily in the states of Illinois and Minnesota.
Fires involving E85 and other ethanol/alcohol mixtures containing more than 15% ethanol should be treated differently than traditional gasoline fires because these mixtures are polar/water miscible flammable liquids (they mix readily with water) and will degrade the effectiveness of fire-fighting foam which is not alcohol-resistant. For this reason, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration recommends the use of alcohol-resistant foam to fight fires involving these fuel mixtures.
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More unintended but foreseeable consequences from bad public policy. This stuff is unsafe and will have cars stalled out everywhere by the time it is admitted that this is just a subsidy of ADM and others in the ag biz and does little or nothing to lead us towards energy independance.
So far, it just seems to be encouraging the owners of gas hogs to keep them running in hopes that ethanol will make 8mpg somehow acceptable in the near future.
So far, it just seems to be encouraging the owners of gas hogs to keep them running in hopes that ethanol will make 8mpg somehow acceptable in the near future.
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