It’s always those pesky unintended consequences that’ll get you every time.
Diluting the gasoline never made any sense to me.
Only a fool puts corn oil (or whatever that crap is) into a combustible engine. May as well unleash Termites in your attic for “environmental safety.”
For nearly 16 years now, I have only used NON-ETHANOL gas and always use www.puregas.org to find stations which supply it.
Ethanol bad for cars
Ethanol good for people
Butanol bad for people
Butanol good for cars
Nahhhh, you’re kidding?!
It is.
Worse mileage so people buy more fuel to burn.
Ethanol gas tailpipe emissions pollute groundwater more than just pure 100% gas byproducts.
Its not great for engines, being alcohol causing them to run hotter. It can also be hard on plastics in the fuel system.
Especially hard on small two-stroke engines that can destroy them.
They’ve known about this for years. It’s a waste of corn.
I blame Iowa.
Burn food, good thinking.
Prove that petroleum is not renewable. Prove it.
that and High Fructose Corn syrup. Both are real killers.
It’s worse than that. Literally burning the food. How is that good?
This is not new information. In graduate school, about 12 years or so ago, one of my courses consisted of researching the ethanol business and subsidies.
One of the things I remember most is finding out scientists and environmental protection groups all agreeing it was worse than using oil and gas. Pollutes more, costs more, etc.
And what did the government do after all the ‘testimonies’? They INCREASED spending on ethanol subsidies.
According to the class findings, it was pretty much just to purchase votes from the corn growing states.
Folks,
A little history.
At one time we had a 3 year grain reserve. Food security has always been an important issue for our govt.
But then they decided it cost too much to have a grain reserve so it was liquidated into the market and depressed the world wide market for corn.
What do we do with it? energy independence was importance at the time, we had a glut of grain and the other oxygenator had just been declared a bad pollutant at this time so ethanol solved some problems.
Now folks, don’t you wish we still had the 3 year grain reserve instead of what we are looking at now in our future?
Pollutants per mile remain unchanged.
BUT, it costs more!
Midwest politicians are addicted to its vote buying power, never mind the impact on food prices and availability.
Imagine that.
how much gas is used in field maintenance/planting/harvesting then trucking corn to the plant then all the energy to make the alcohol, the trucking it to the mixing facilities and final mixing???
tell me again how green it is
I’ve been using *Ethanol Free* 90oct Premium since buying my 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee Supercharged HEMI V8. There are only a couple of stations here in York, which sell it.
Can’t we just pay the farmers to throw the corn away? Its not great in gas or putting corn syrup in everything. I’d prefer to stop growing all that corn that we don’t need but we know thats not going to happen because Big Farm Lobbies.
Yes. We know.
Those of us with still functioning brains pointed it out decades ago that burning food is dumb and that said production of this alt-fuel generated more waste/pollution than it was advertised to prevent.
“Corn ethanol is not a climate-friendly fuel,”
But a lot of greenies got to feel real good about it for awhile.
Once these fools manage to outlaw gasoline, those of us who “cling” to our internal combustion engines will be making our own alcohol, just a bringin’ on the global warming.