Underwriters Laboratories has called into question the safety of the E85 fuel pumps, which has frozen the rollout of new stations, as well as cast doubt of the legal status of those now in use.
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.
Removing the UL safety rating for the E85 pumps is certainly not a good sign, and does not bode well for the future of E85 here in the USA...
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ateixeira says:
09:37 AM, 10/19/06
Doesn't mean the pumps are bad, not necessarily any way. Let's hope they aren't.
billt9 says:
12:54 PM, 10/19/06
I thought recent materials engineering nullified the ethanol corrosion problems, that's why E85 even got started.
Has new research shown that these "new materials" "resistant" to corrsion, are in fact, corroded?