Posted on 05/25/2016 3:54:04 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Energy: The EPA’s proposal to increase the amount of ethanol that must be blended into gasoline is a trifecta of regulatory abuse. It will do nothing for the environment, it will do nothing for energy security, and it could wreck millions of car engines
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Methanol (nitromethanol) racing fuel actually contains only half as much energy per lb. as gasoline, but it mixes with air at 4:1, where gasoline mixes with air at 16:1. That means you can dump 4 times as much into the cylinder for the same amount of air and the net result is twice as much energy from combustion.
Not sure it was nitromethanol. I’ve heard of nitro-methane, which is what top fuel drag racers run. I just ran straight methanol (that’s what the label on the barrel said, anyway). Don’t know anything about it, other than it was a pain in the ass. It absorbed moisture, too much of which would disqualify you on race day, it gummed up the carb if you didn’t clean it after race day was over, it was more expensive at that time than gasoline, and it was harder on the engines.
i don’t know why your sales are down,all i know is i have a shop full of these things with bad gaskets mush fuel lines and in some cases pitted aluminn that can’t be fixed.all the additives in the world won’t fix that.
My "sales are down" since they stopped using cast iron piston rings, point ignition and carburetors, and started using chrome/moly rings, electronic ignition and fuel injection.
The engines outlast the sheetmetal (like I said, over 200,000 mi)
all i know is i have a shop full of these things with bad gaskets mush fuel lines and in some cases pitted aluminn that can’t be fixed.
That stuff must have been sitting in your shop for awhile, since anything new is built to run on the blended fuel, with maybe the exception of two strokes.
Alcohol doesn't pit aluminum, but the mixture with water might. All my lawn/garden equipment is at least 20 years old, and I doubt that the ethanol is causing my belts, bushings and friction wheels to go to hell. The engines are fine and have never been apart,except for removing float bowls until I figured out the problem.
The problems arises from leaving the untreated fuel in the tanks and carbs.
You can't do that.
well,i don’t get them til they are 3 or 4 years old.
I’ll take the contents of my gun safe being legal over access to ethanol free gas. ;-)
After over 200 tanks full of gasoline in the same cars, with the same drivers and over the exact same daily routes, I can categorically declare that theory deeply flawed.
Also notice, the admin is not preaching MPGs daily. If they did, the truth would come out.
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