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- In March 2026, the EPA issued an emergency waiver allowing E15 gasoline (15% corn ethanol) to be sold nationwide year-round; Congress is attempting to make that permanent.
- E15 is illegal to put in cars built before 2001 because ethanol is a powerful solvent that eats rubber fuel lines, corrodes steel gas tanks from the inside, and attacks water, causing engine choking.
- Mechanics note that the alcohol scrubs years of varnish off the tank, clogs filters, and causes vapor lock.
- Automakers warn that using E15 could cost drivers up to $4,000 in per-vehicle repairs.
- The corn ethanol lobby allegedly spent $187,000,000 buying influence in Washington and has received over $20,000,000,000 in taxpayer subsidies to promote ethanol, which the speaker claims waters down gasoline and increases production costs.
- The speaker asserts this is a pipeline and mandate fuel that slowly destroys older independent vehicles, making repairs expensive and forcing consumers to buy new cars, which allegedly come with AI mandatory kill switches.