To: aculeus
Methanol destroys rubber hoses and corrodes metal. It causes reduced fuel mileage and has much less BTUs per gallon. It would cost a fortune to retrofit older vehicles and I doubt it would work in a modern vehicle! The city of Denver tried a tanker of it and within a couple of hours none of the police cars were running.
5 posted on
03/02/2006 8:27:31 AM PST by
mountainlyons
(Hard core conservative)
To: mountainlyons
"Methanol destroys rubber hoses and corrodes metal. It causes reduced fuel mileage and has much less BTUs per gallon. It would cost a fortune to retrofit older vehicles and I doubt it would work in a modern vehicle! The city of Denver tried a tanker of it and within a couple of hours none of the police cars were running."
Bingo! This is the thing that will kill any methanol implementation. Check your owner's manual for any car made after about 1990. It will specifically tell you that using fuel containing methanol will void your warranty.
11 posted on
03/02/2006 8:34:50 AM PST by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: mountainlyons
My post number ten should have been directed to you. I wasn't watching where I was going.
14 posted on
03/02/2006 8:36:30 AM PST by
FreePaul
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