CNSNews.com keeps up its longtime shilling for the oil industry with a July 16 article by Kendra Alleyne warning of “a new blend of gasoline comprising 15 percent ethanol, approved by the Environmental Protection Agency last month and now available in Kansas.” Alleyne cited the Kansas Petroleum Council as sounding the warning.
Alleyne didn’t mention that the Kansas Petroleum Council is an affiliate of the American Petroleum Institute, which has long attacked the gasoline-ethanol blend known as E15. Alleyne also failed to mention that, as Autoblog noted, E15 is available exactly one gas station in Kansas, so it’s hardly a widespread threat.
In an unusual move for a CNS reporter, Alleyne does at least acknowledge the other side of the story — that the Department of Energy issued a statement that its research on E15 “did not uncover unusual wear that would be expected to impact performance.”