Illinois State Legislature Puts the Heat on Congress
Both the Illinois State House and Senate have resolutions before them urging the United States Congress to pass H.R 875, a bill to require scientific testing of the fuel blend E-15. At the specific request of ABATE of Illinois, Senators Mike Jacobs and Linda Holmes have sponsored Senate Resolution 634 along with Representatives Kay Hatcher and Tomas Morrison who sponsored identical legislation known as House Resolution 524.
The measures are non-binding but send a clear message to Washington D.C. that something needs to be done to address the problematic issues associated with the new, higher level of ethanol blends. This is resounding especially coming from a State like Illinois where the local economy highly depends on the sale of corn.
H.R. 524 and S.R. 634 are great examples of what can be done at the State level to combat the effects of a nationwide problem.
When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the waiver that allowed for the sale of E-15 they did no testing on the power train of the motor, only the tailpipe emissions. Failing to test the effects of the blend on nothing else has resulted in manufactures refusing to do any warranty repair on any motorcycle that has run E-15 though it.
H.R. 875, the Sensenbrenner bill, would force the EPA to conduct an independent study on all of the effects of the E-15 blend on internal combustion engines and at the same time halt the sale of the blend to avoid any further damage to the fleet.
The Motorcycle Riders Foundation would like to thank ABATE of Illinois for their support in working to get H.R. 875 passed.
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