Photo: #This 30 May, 2006 photo shows a gas pump in Hudson, Wisconsin, offering E85 fuel which is 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline.
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This 30 May, 2006 photo shows a gas pump in Hudson, Wisconsin, offering E85 fuel which is 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. (Getty Images/Karen Bleier)

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Hope for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approval of ethanol conversion kits

by Cathy Wurzer, Minnesota Public Radio
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St. Paul, Minn. — Gov. Tim Pawlenty is urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency to designate Minnesota as a test location for ethanol conversion kits. The kits allow a car designed to run on regular gasoline to use E85, a fuel blend with 85 percent ethanol. It is illegal to convert a gasoline-only vehicle to run on E85 without EPA approval.

Cathy Wurzer talked with Brad Bristol, who advocates the approval of the kits. He's installed a conversion kit on a vehicle and hopes to open an ethanol-conversion business in Long Lake.

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