Going Yellow Given a Yellow Light

[Variance]

Going Yellow Given a Yellow Light

A move by the nation's largest product-safety laboratory to remove its approval of ethanol fuel pumps has frozen the rollout of new ethanol stations and cast doubt on the legal status of the roughly 1,000 stations already selling E85 fuel.

Without certification from Underwriters Laboratories, the company that tests thousands of products for safety and manages the "UL" symbol, state officials and ethanol industry executives say E85 pumps may run afoul of state and local fire codes that require "listed" equipment for pumping fuel. A fire marshal in Columbus, Ohio, ordered two E85 pumps shut down last week because of a lack of UL approval and Michigan officials are wrestling with the question as well.

Read "E85 pumps lose UL safety rating" @ Detroit Free Press

[Flybrian]

So, this is regulatory thing unrealted to E85 fuel itself...I'm sure everyone will be able to tell the difference.