If they start using that E15 garbage around here (and I’m sure they will, as many eco-mentalists as we have in this area), I just have to pray that it doesn’t finish off my 180,000-mile fifteen-year-old 5.2L Dodge V8 before I can afford to replace it. My gas mileage (what little there is of it) is already off because of E10.
I like how the crystal ball-gazers at the EPA just unilaterally decide that a 2001 engine can run on E15, and sod all what the manufacturer might say. Government by experts at its finest.
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‘I like how the crystal ball-gazers at the EPA just unilaterally decide that a 2001 engine can run on E15, and sod all what the manufacturer might say. Government by experts at its finest.’
My thought as well. Never mind about the facts just deem it so. Theres a lot of that going on in DC at the moment. Well, we knew libs were delusional preferring to live in a fantasy world.
....and don’t forget at $5.oo a gallon! God help us!
Fact is, the metal in the engine might be able to, but what will it do to the 2001 seals and gaskets? And the thick rubber gas line that’s been there since 2001?
Ethanol is not even needed anymore. todays engines adjust their burn rates (air intake, richness of gas used) by their computer-controlled fuel injection. There is no need for ethanol to make the burn more complete. Computer does it all now. Cars cannot get ‘out of tune’ and waste gas like older cars with carburators.
ethanol is totally unnecessary in the age of computer controlled fuel injection. Yes this won’t cover the miniscule amount of cars that are carburator cars but over 99% of cars regularly on the road were built in 1984 or later and have computer fuel injection.