Your letters for Sept. 18

Fuel rules a non-starter The new fuel standards to be implemented by the federal government requires all gasoline to be gasohol. Gasohol does not work well in carbureted engines and has a shelf life of about one month. We switched from gasoline to gasohol for regular and midgrade gasoline in 2012/13, with no notification. My regular gas chainsaw just stopped working, but my premium gas one still worked. My lawnmower barely ran and was in for tune-ups twice. My quad and snowmobiles had to have carburetor rebuilds three times. In 2018 I found out that we had switched gas and the problems it caused. I switched all of my carbureted engines to premium, and they are now all trouble-free. Now Trudeau is insisting that we make premium into gasohol as well. Which means that we increase pollution by throwing out all of our carbureted engines. Many studies have shown that the increase in CO2 to produce alcohol negates any benefit from gasohol. Farmland will no longer produce food. Yet, without warning us of the consequences, we are going to switch. Bob Wilson, Calgary No confidence in Alberta managing pension plan for all It is disturbing to see Jason Kenney is still proceeding with a study on the feasibility of an Alberta pension system.