I agree with Cruz on this and he is the first candidate I’ve been excited about in many years. I am curious about your list though. The first is very probably true. What evidence is there of engine life problems? What pollutants are more common with ethanol vs octane?
He’s saying because your car gets worse mileage with ethanol, you’re spewing more pollution because you have to burn some more gallons to make the same trip.
“What evidence is there of engine life problems? What pollutants are more common with ethanol vs octane?”
Feed ethanol-laced gasoline to older vehicles and you will have both engine and fuel system-related problems. Newer cars have been built to tolerate some ethanol, but even they will succumb to failures if the government ups the percentage of ethanol in the fuel. People who race cars using alcohols as fuel, “clean them out” with gasoline when they are through racing to prevent the kind of damage that alcohols do. Alcohol is tough on a lot of sealing materials and it eats up aluminum.
I know for a fact that ethanol ruins small engines. If it is that bad for those engines, it can’t be good for our cars and trucks either.
I had to have the fuel pump, carburetor and fuel lines replaced on my old outboard motor. When I took it in, the service guy had about 35 of them lined up on the wall.
Ethanol had destroyed them all.
The pollutant issue is that with the poorer mileage, your pollutants per mile are higher.
The engine wear is from the higher temps.