Before ethanol we had the “forced” use of Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) additive and before that Ethane and lead additives. Ethane, lead and MTBE proved to be harmful and were or are being withdrawn from use.
All of these are additives that are or were used to clean up dirty burning gasoline. None of them were intended to equal or better gasoline in miles per gallon.
Ethanol is being produced all over the world from a variety of feedstocks because it is profitable to produce and is readily salable to world wide markets.
Here in America, Ethanol offsets 10 percent of our oil imports that we would otherwise be buying from our enemies. This number is growing every year.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are being earned by tens of thousands of people employed in this American based industry and millions more in taxes are being paid for wages and profits earned. This money all stays in America.
Well, I don’t like the stuff! It has caused me three years of grief and I have spent a hellofalot of time and money trying to resolve the issue of my motor home’ poor performance running this crap!
And, another thing; if 10% ethanol in the gas results in a 10% reduction in gas mileage, how have we used less oil?
I found this web site when researching my problem: http://www.fuel-testers.com/
You might want to take a look at it.