You are either not paying attention, or else you are in denial of reality. Perhaps later model engines (2010 vehicles and later) are better designed to handle ethanol fuels, but older engines do not run well on the garbage. And while corn syrup, corn meal, and sweetcorn may not be expensive to you ( I am guessing your fairly young) the products that these items go have become much more expensive in linear fashion with increased ethanol production.
Yeah, I'm stupid. (I'm in the automotive industry)
Perhaps later model engines (2010 vehicles and later) are better designed to handle ethanol fuels, but older engines do not run well on the garbage.
It's been around a lot longer than that. It cleans the varnish out of fuel tanks and dissolves rubber parts, depositing the gum in the fuel filter or carburetor. After that's fixed...no big deal...same as running a lot of dry-gas. How long has it been since auto manufacturers actually used rubber fuel line, fuel pump and accelerator pump diaphragms instead of neoprene?
40 years?...longer?
And while corn syrup, corn meal, and sweetcorn may not be expensive to you ( I am guessing your fairly young)
Wrong again honey...retirement age.
the products that these items go have become much more expensive in linear fashion with increased ethanol production.
Oh for crying out loud.
First of all, they don't use feed corn for cornmeal and corn syrup. I use cornmeal frequently and the price is negligible.
I don't think five ears of sweet-corn for a dollar is outrageous....do you?
Did you not notice that I gave you credence on your first two points? The rest is hog-squeeze....mythology.