Gypsy the dog gives her approval to owner Dean Walker of Gaston County of a July cruise on Charlotte’s Mountain Island Lake in Walker’s four-month-old bass boat. Jack Horan Does your boat motor have a ...

Dear Car Fix: My engine has some issues and the dealer told me I had bought bad gas. What is the real story? My friends told me it really was the ethanol in the gas. Can you explain it all? Thanks. -- ...

Environmentalists in recent years have enthusiastically hailed ethanol fuel as a central element in combating what they perceive as a global warming crisis caused by manmade carbon dioxide emissions.

Bill Taylor of Hampton Hills was cruising down the lake with 10 family members aboard his boat when it happened. "The engine had been running fine. All of a sudden, it sputtered to a stop and refused ...

Fuel prices across the country were already on the rise, but now a cyber attack on one of the largest fuel pipelines in the U.S. is creating fears about a possible fuel shortage. The White House said ...

You might have noticed that some gas stations occasionally offer specials on unleaded 88 octane gas—also known as E15—which contains 15 percent ethanol. Ethanol is an alcohol that’s derived from corn.

As India accelerates its ethanol blending program with the nationwide rollout of E20 fuel, a mix of 20 per cent ethanol and 80 per cent petrol, concerns are mounting among owners of older vehicles.

Germany is preparing to introduce a new gasoline blend that could affect millions of vehicles across Europe.

Not long ago our congressional buds in D.C. voted that so long as a slice of pizza had two tablespoons of tomato paste it could be considered a vegetable. That way pizza, the notorious junk food, ...

I’ve used ethanol in all my vehicles — cars, trucks, motorcycles, lawn mowers and boat motors — since the mid-1980s and I’m completely satisfied with it. However, I recently fell into information that ...

The production and transportation of ethanol uses more energy than ethanol yields. State and Federal ethanol subsidies cost American taxpayers billions, while increasing the price of fuel at the pump ...