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To: ROCKLOBSTER
I'm no proponent of the ethanol additive (although it's better than MTBE) but I hate to see the phony arguments against it. There are genuine objections.

Two other genuine objections:

1. Gasoline provides about 15% greater efficiency than gasohol, as measured by mpg. And, with the price of oil depressed, it provides these extra miles at a lower cost.

2. Burning gasohol does not reduce air pollution compared to burning gasoline. The efficiency of automobile engines has greatly improved from 1990 (when the mandate was approved) so that there is no difference between gasoline and gasohol in terms of air pollution.

In other words, the primary reason for ethanol's use as a motor fuel no longer exists!

47 posted on 12/30/2015 8:08:54 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: okie01
The efficiency of automobile engines has greatly improved from 1990 (when the mandate was approved) so that there is no difference between gasoline and gasohol in terms of air pollution.

In fact, about the only compounds present in a modern car exhaust are water vapor and CO2. That's exactly why the watermelons attacked the latter.

Since they couldn't go after water vapor, the lying RATs have convinced the dumbed-down public that:

(Lie #1) CO2 is a pollutant, and
(Lie #2) There is currently global warming, and
(Lie#3) We're causing all that not-happening global warming.

Of course, now they're trying to tell us that CO2 causes "global cooling".

49 posted on 12/30/2015 8:34:48 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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