Well yeah, their entire lives have been spent sucking oil dick, their entire foundation of their wealth is tied up in oil, and even though they're rich enough to pivot entirely and never feel a difference in their lives, they're stuck in the sunk cost mentality.

It's too risky to invest in a brand new industry that's on shaky legs. Never mind that it stopped being a "new" industry decades ago and has proven it will do quite well, and is thriving. They stopped paying attention to real life many many decades ago. As far as they are concerned, they didn't have to do any sort of personal growth, so they are woefully out of touch with reality.

Oil is what was there when they (or their parents they inherited wealth from) were kids, so obviously they have to dig their heels in to keep oil from flopping. Anything else is secondary.

Just wait until they try to dilute your electricity down to 100V. /s

"I used to only fit $50 of gas in my truck, now I can fit $100. Lol checkmate libs"

Ethanol also rots the internal works of your vehicle so vehicles will disintegrate and people will be forced to buy new vehicles in 2027+ which will all have mandatory big brother spyware.

Again

Fortunately, us Americans suck at math. A consequence of our “world class” public education.

MAGA started drinking the ocean water a long time ago because woke lib science told them it was dangerous.

If you ask yourself “which option causes more pollution?” about nearly any policy, you’ll get the entire Republican platform

They absolutely can, just not as much, and not in the ways they're used to. They've invested heavily in oil based products up to and including fighting many many wars as well as shaping their entire international policy around it.

They could pivot to renewables, something several Democrats started the process of doing, but until the pivot completes their profits would take a nose dive (plus the massive losses from the heavy investment into oil refineries). Even then though the unfortunate crux of the matter is that rare earth metals are an increasingly vital component of all future technology and the biggest deposits of those are all very inconveniently placed from a US perspective (almost exclusively within the territory of countries the US has a somewhat poor relationship with).

Capitalism breeds innovation after all!

And you simply end up buying more gas because it's less efficient if your car doesn't take it. So demand will actually increase. Which makes sense when you realize whose in charge.

It's not just classic cars, cars from the 2000s have rubber fuel lines as well.

If you own a classic car and aren’t running ethanol free gas (it exists) then you are a bad car owner.

Yeah, in the EU there's a law that petrol has to be 10% non-fossil energy for 95 and 5% for 98 IIRC. Now, most stations skirt by it by producing "green" natural gas or just buying clean energy certificates or whatever it is they do, but when the law came out, there was a big deal because it turns out a lot of older cars aren't cleared for E10. I imagine even fewer are for E15.

It's not so much that it'd kill the engine. That's unlikely to happen for MOST engines. What it will do is destroy the fuel hoses. And if you have a stupid early direct injection petrol engine with a membrane based high pressure fuel pump (fuck you, GM! I think a few others used that design too though), that pump's not gonna like ethanol. If the high pressure fuel pump fails and your engine runs lean, that might indeed kill an engine though.