AV8ORJWC
Joined: 13 Jul 2006
Posts: 1149
Location: Aurora, Oregon "Home of VANS"
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 Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:04 am Post subject: Amendment and Revision to Kit Building Rules - Where's the |
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Deems, you have hit it on the head.
Randy Hansen is our (everyone's EAA Government Relations Rep). He wrote this glowing passage after Oregon killed an exclusion for one grade of gasoline to be available for aircraft operators of STCed MOGAS engines and LSAs with Rotax (which require a restriction on 100LL).
"When we sent our first EAA member e-Alert/Notice to Oregon members,
Dan Clem and the Department of Ag were very strongly opposed to asking
the state legislature to amend the new ethanol mandating bill. They
said that because this was only a special secession and that all special
secession bills had already been identified, that any modifications
would not be looked at or accepted. In actual practice, the OPA and EAA
members were able to bring their concerns before their individual
legislators and get the bill listing several exemptions, including
aviation, introduced and acted on. Hopefully, this afternoon the bill
will be finalized and passed. While the "exclude all premium gasoline
from ethanol-blending" point of view has not, so far, carried the day -
it has been an overwhelming success to get this far into the special
Oregon legislature secession with a bill that state advisors said should
not have happened. So, EAA must offer our congrats to the entire team
for this huge effort and success."
The role of the Director of Aviation, Dan Clem, has now been brought into question on Ethanol at the Pump. Nothing about HB2210 which is law or the SB1079 Amendment A6 which was supposed to correct it during the Emergency Session this week, can be called a success. When pilots, who had waited hours for the Railroad Lobbyists to finish talking, our legislators walked out of the hearing on them.
The result is that Oregon is the first state in the union to mandate that all consumers buy adulterated fuel at the pump with a minimum of 10% ethanol. Greenies want all states to mandate Ethanol. Several states provided fuel exemptions. Oregon is not one of them. The First Responders who use gasoline emergency generators, the boat and auto aficionados and of course aviators be damned. Everything was tried, nothing persuaded our legislators. The EAA did nothing but offer congrats to some entire team which did not represent our interests. Now all of you flying from other states had better check fuel supply first. Don’t get me wrong, I love the EAA for what it presents, but legislative and government relations are a travesty. The ARC is not much different. The EAA needs to focus primarily on Experimental Certificated Aircraft…. Period.
John Cox #600
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