{"id":2256,"date":"2021-01-10T00:42:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2021-01-10T21:08:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T21:08:20","slug":"joan-claybrook-claims-flex-fuel-taurus-cant-run-e85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=2256","title":{"rendered":"Joan Claybrook claims flex-fuel Taurus can&#x27;t run E85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief and current head of Public Citizen Joan Claybrook has long been a thorn in the side of the auto-makers. Now in a follow-on to<a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2006\/10\/12\/your-flex-fuel-ford-may-be-addicted-to-gasoline\/\"> this earlier story<\/a> about problems with flex-fuel Ford Tauruses it seems that Claybrook has filed a petition with NHTSA claiming that the 2003-2005 Taurus and Mercury Sable shouldn&#x27;t be labeled as flex-fuel capable. Evidently there may be a cold start problem with the vehicles in question and Ford sent out a technical service bulletin recommending that customers stick to gasoline to temporarily solve cold start problems with the Taurus\/Sable. Public Citizen has also filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission that Ford should not be allowed to advertise these vehicles as flex-fuel capable. If the FTC accepts the complaint then Ford could be facing a hefty fine, and NHTSA could conceivably order a recall and fix of the 228,000 affected cars.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Taurus problems, Public Citizen also has a more general complaint about car-makers getting fuel-economy credits for flex-fuel vehicles. Car-makers get credit toward CAFE standards based on the assumption that a percentage of petroleum fuel consumption will be replaced by ethanol. Public Citizen contends that this should not be allowed because only 900 of the nations 170,000 fuel pumps dispense E85.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: Detroit News]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2006\/10\/13\/joan-claybrook-claims-flex-fuel-taurus-cant-run-e85\/<\/p>\n<p>2006-10-13T16:59:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief and current head of Public Citizen Joan Claybrook has long been a thorn in the side of the auto-makers. Now in a follow-on to this earlier story about problems with flex-fuel Ford Tauruses\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14098,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions\/14098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}