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To: Keith in Iowa

Count on your gas mileage to drop. Ethanol has 66% of the energy than gasoline.

In addition, performance will be degraded as well.


48 posted on 03/29/2006 4:33:55 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

"Count on your gas mileage to drop. Ethanol has 66% of the energy than gasoline."

But it has a high resistance to detonation, so it can be used with higher compression ratios, which increase power and efficiency, or higher levels of boost in turbocharged engines, increasing power but not efficiency.


148 posted on 03/30/2006 11:23:39 AM PST by -YYZ-
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