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To: anglian

My miles per gal. went down over 12% with 10% ethanol,
on long trips, 300 miles and above. I have checked this
going and coming on several occasions. Apparently using
more gas plus the ethanol. Another gov’t screw up.
From my younger days, I remember that carb. jets size had to be increased, to run alcohol in racing engines.


14 posted on 02/03/2010 3:27:05 PM PST by TweetEBird007
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To: TweetEBird007

So true. Not mentioned also is the cost depletion of water from underground aquifers.


15 posted on 02/03/2010 3:30:38 PM PST by anglian
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To: TweetEBird007
My miles per gal. went down over 12% with 10% ethanol,

I read somewhere that the government is considering raising the maximum ethanol content in "Regular Unleaded" from 10% to 15%. You can bet the price per gallon won't come down - and the cost per mile traveled keeps going up as fuel economy drops.

BTW, this is why none of the hybrids run on E85.

19 posted on 02/03/2010 3:49:36 PM PST by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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