My new car has a warning on the gas cap.
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.
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
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.
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.
Thank Ethanol on Presidential candidates (both parties) who sell their souls at the Iowa Caucuses.
I hate the ethanol gas. Had a VW Rabbit in the late 70s. Filled it ONCE with that crap and it never ran right again.
When all he internal combustion engines stop running, I guess we will finally get that clean air.
But ... as we go to horses, their flatulence is explosive, like that recent cow explosion.
So, darn.
They shouldn't have to pay more to get it. Ethanol costs more than gasoline.
There’s only one thing though: going back to 100% gasoline won’t improve the fuel economy of a 2010 model year or newer car. That’s because the engines are nowadays tuned with 10% ethanol gasoline in mind, and as such going back to 100% won’t really improve performance or fuel economy.
It is hard to determine the lower IQ workers...those in climate research or those in the EPA.
Of course, they both exist due to the lowest IQ group in the world: congress critters...led by the Cretin-in-Chief.
If your gas engine weed wacker, lawnmower, snow blower, chainsaw, boat motor, generator ... is more than 3 years old, these will be harmed by ethanol blend gas. More wear, garb gunk and rubber gas lines rot. These small engines were not designed for ethanol gas and even newer ones which have card & resistant gas lines will show more wear than with pure gas.
I’ve had to replace gas lines on my older small engine sand bought a new carb for my older snow blower. The repairs were kind of hard as the designs are not repair friendly—our throw away consumer goods. My source for pure gas is 50 miles away, thanks to the EPA.
E-10 ruined 2 chainsaws and 3 string trimmers for me now I have to use that high dollar canned fuel from the hardware store to do the yard.
I always try to buy pure gas, and I notice a significant drop in mileage when I use ethanol. That said, I sometimes wonder if I’m actually getting what I pay for, because the pure gas can cost significantly more, like $0.30 per gallon or more. I watch my mileage, have a pretty consistent driving pattern (to/from work), and sometimes notice the “pure gas” mileage drops for no apparent reason to what I get with known ethanol fill ups. If there was some sort of inexpensive kit that could instantly test for alcohol content in my fuel, I’d probably use it occasionally.
On pure highway driving (long trip, using the full tank), I get about 38 MPG on pure gas. My mileage drops closer to 36 MPG on ethanol. It’s a noticeable decline and seems to be more than energy density calculations would otherwise indicate. I wonder if anyone else has seen similar drops in performance when they use ethanol.
that would be me...
In CA, your car will not pass the SMOG test if the check engine light is on. They won't even test it.
The problem is ethanol not alcohol. Butanol is a great fuel additive / gasoline replacement