The government has a solution for cars lasting longer. It’s called gasoline blended with 15 percent ethanol.
Combined with funneling gas taxes to choochoos and bike paths and you have potholes that’ll destroy what’s left of the suspension and chassis.
During the Carter Administration, ethanol-blend was introduced to extend gasoline, by volume; increasing the availability of fuel at the pump by 10%.
Over the ensuing decades and beginning in the Clinton era, ethanol-blend was institutionalized as an “oxygenater” and a solution to Greenhouse Gas emissions. No science was used to define the change....it was just programmed into the national “understanding” (Thank you to the ArcherDanielsMidland lobby).
Chemically, EtOH is an “oxygenater” simply because of the added presence of oxygen in the EtOH that is mixed with...not appended to...the gasoline grouping. We have fallen for the pogrom that says our fuel ^needs^ EtOH to reduce GHG. This was NEVER scientifically supported at any blend/mixture; it just “is”.
Yes, EtOH contributes Oxygen to the combustion cycle but, before it gets into the RICE cylinder, it also “oxidizes” the entire fuel system causing brittleness and premature failure of multiple portions of that feed system. Needless to say, a large portion of the “oxidizer” provided by EtOH gets consumed prior to reaching the combustion chamber.
Note that EtOH is an “organic chemical” as opposed to a covalent/polar chemical (Rio Linda Explanation: Water Based) and will naturally first interact with other organic contacts in the system such as plastic and rubber.
(For reviewing chemists, I do know that EtOH is a bridge reagent between polar/covalent and organic chemistry.)