My new car has a warning on the gas cap.
Posted on 02/01/2014 7:34:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Adding alcohol to gasoline dilutes the fuel, and lowers the heat energy.
One US gallon of Gasoline (regular unleaded) = 114,100 BTU/gal
One US gallon of Ethanol (E100) = 76,100 BTU/gal [67% of gasoline BTU]
One US gallon of 10% Ethanol/Gasoline Blend (E10) = 111,300 BTU/gal [97% of gasoline BTU]
Adding 10% ethanol to gasoline requires burning 3% more fuel to accomplish the same task.
Ethanol blended gasoline requires buying more gallons of fuel in order to travel the same distance.
Why do state and federal governments really like ethanol blended fuels?
Highway fuels are taxed “by the gallon”, so governments collect more taxes with blended fuels.
Mandating the use of ethanol blended fuel is a disguise for a hike in gasoline taxes.
I’d like to catch the person or persons responsible for my having to put up with ethanol in my gas and beat the holy hell out of them.
My new car has a warning on the gas cap.
The ethanol in gasoline will also absorb water whereas gasoline always separates itself from it.
Good old Dan Rostenkowski.
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Ethanol-free gas stations in the U.S. and Canada
http://pure-gas.org/
There are major parts of the country where there is no ethanol-free gasoline. The nearest may be hours and hundreds of miles away.
Once again Washington passes laws demanding something be invented or discovered and screams or sues or worse when it does not come through on schedule. /FACT
There are a few government mandated requirements that have forced auto manufacturers to disavow their use in warrantees. TPMS sensors are one.
The EPA is full of it if they claim that 2001 and newer cars can “safely” use E-15. Read your owners manual and you will find that anything more than 10% ethanol gasoline blends will invalidate your warranty. I avoid ethanol gas where I can, but in states like Minnesota all of the gasoline except a high octane blend for marine engines contains at least 10% ethanol and is not labeled. In South Dakota, where corn ethanol is almost a religion, the state fleet has stopped using E-85 in its flex fuel vehicles after determining that it costs 13-percent more than the regular gas despite the heavily subsidized E-85 averaging more than 20 cents less per gallon.
It's not just the EPA. It's also the farm lobby.
I know when the local gas supply switches from the “summer” blend to the “winter” blend my mileage drops immediately from 21 mpg to 19 mpg.
In the Spring, when the “summer” blend returns, so does my mileage.
The government, purportedly, wants automobiles to get better gas mileage but by mandating gasoline containing 10% ethanol, cars get 3% less gas mileage while increasing the chance of damaging the engine.
Idiots.
Precisely. Welfare for farmers, nothing more.
I’m guessing there is some “crony capitalism” for the processors too.
Thank Ethanol on Presidential candidates (both parties) who sell their souls at the Iowa Caucuses.
Yes.
And a lot of that ‘ethanol-free’ gas does, in fact, contain ethanol, in small amounts as an oxygenate at if not up to 10%. But a lot of people are convinced by advertising or mere assertions.
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