“We’re happy to build new equipment for new fuels with increased ethanol but we will not sit idly by and put our customers’ safety and economic interests at risk.”—Kris Kiser, Outdoor Power Equipment Institute

The small engine-ethanol issue has gone national with a recent report on U.S. National Public Radio featuring an instructor at WyoTech automotive school in Laramie, Wyo., the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute’s executive VP of government affairs Kris Kiser and Ron Lamberty, a spokesman for the American Coalition of Ethanol.

Under the provocative headline “Ethanol Could Kill Your Small Engine,” the story is available as an audio podcast on the NPR web site (marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/12/30/pm_ethanol_kills/), while a full text of the interviews and feature are available here