The engine tanked and the repair facility checked the gas and they said alchohl was the culprit.
Now the greenies and corn farmers want to mandate a 20% mixture .
What actually tanked? Engine (burnt pistons and valves), or fuel supply system? I've used methanol in both racing Karts and 800 horse-power sprint cars. I know ethanol is different from methanol, but they are close enough that the changes made for one will usually accommodate the other.
Firt thing is they don't like the same rubber fuel lines your gasoline-powered engines have always used - they eat them up, melt them from the inside out. The methanol-powered Karts couldn't use the standard black rubber fuel line that the gasoline engines used, it was polyurethane.
Second, they leave behind a residue that can clog things up - for the Karts, the remedy was running a few ounces of WD-40 through the main line, carb, and into the engine before packing it up at the end of the day. This got rid of any residual methanol, lubricated things (methanol works to dry things out), and eliminated the potential for corrosive deposites left behind when the methanol evaporated.