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.
Not now, but ...
I can remember, 50 years ago, growing up in Michigan where we would buy sweet corn from the farmer up the road for 30 ears for a dollar; 40 for a dollar if we picked it ourselves. During the autumn, my parents fed five growing boys sometimes three times a week on nothing but sweet corn for dinner. And my mother would can enough sweet corn to keep us going for the whole next year.
I can’t eat sweet corn anymore. 5 ears for a buck??!! Now I’m sort of glad that’s on the no no list. 15 years ago, I got 13 ears for a buck. Ten years ago, I got 12 ears to a buck. I thought half a dozen to a buck was exorbitant.