I hate ethanol and so does my Jimmy. However, around our metropolitan area we are forced to use gas with ethanol added. My truck switches gears easier, runs cooler, and gets a couple more miles a gallon when I can fill up in the outlying areas. Ethanol also burns out the fuel injectors and the fuel line linings.
My lawn mower, set for so much BTU's contained in so much fluid, does not wok well either.
What people don't seem to pick up is the engineered systems we have are expecting a certain level of BTUs contained in the liquid fuel in the system we supply.
Alcohol has far less BTUs (bang-for-the-buck) than gasoline, and a totally diff. (lower) temp that it vaporises at. A completely re-engineered internal conbustion engine would work ,well, sort of, OK to use alcohol instead of gasoline. But to put alcohol in an engine engineered for gasoline is no diff. than putting diesel oil in the same engine and expecting happy times.
Please
Is there no very basic science being taught in America any more?