There is nothing good about ethanol as a biofuel additive.
It takes about 50 gallons of water to produce a gallon of ethanol....it has a shelf life of only 90 days after 100 days it begins to separate from gas as it absorbs water....it burns hotter than gas but you still get less power in your engine and lower gas mileage...it's all a sham which is mandated by guess who...government....just another example how lobbyists and their money corrupt politicians etc. so a few can get wealthy at the expense of everyone.
The primary job of the Environmental Protection Agency is, dare it be said, to protect our environment. Yet using ethanol actually creates more smog than using regular gas, and the EPA's own attorneys had to admit that fact in front of the justices presiding over the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in 1995 (API v. EPA).
Second, truly independent studies on ethanol, such as those written by Tad Patzek of Berkeley and David Pimentel of Cornell, show that ethanol is a net energy loser. Other studies suggest there is a small net energy gain from it.
Third, all fuels laced with ethanol reduce the vehicle's fuel efficiency, and the E85 blend drops gas mileage between 30% and 40%, depending on whether you use the EPA's fuel mileage standards (fueleconomy.gov) or those of the Dept. of Energy.
Fourth, forget what biofuels have done to the price of foodstuffs worldwide over the past three years; the science seems to suggest that using ethanol increases global warming emissions over the use of straight gasoline. Just these issues should have kept ethanol from being brought back for its fourth run in American history.
Don't let anybody mislead you: The new push to get a 15% ethanol mandate out of Washington is simply to restore profitability to a failed industry. Only this time around those promoting more ethanol in our gas say there's no scientific proof that adding more ethanol will damage vehicles or small gas-powered engines. With that statement they've gone from shilling the public to outright falsehoods, because ethanol-laced gasoline is already destroying engines across the country in ever larger numbers.
Ethanol eats away at rubber and plastic parts, dissolving them over them and leaving you, at best, with performance issues, and at worst, with expensive repair bills. The dissolved plastics and resins now in the fuel have to go somewhere, and that typically means either plugged fuel filters or a nice buildup of gummy dark deposits in injectors and on valve stems. Vehicle and equipment performance goes out the window at this point.
....ethanol has eaten through the gaskets on my boats fuel pumps almost as fast as I can replace them....I've had to start buying ethanol free...but I did it too late. A contributing factor on my boat losing a cylinder and piston may have been the clogging the oil feed to that cylinder due to ethanol build up. I have also had the flow needle on my fuel injector pump froze solid in the open position due to this type of buildup causing me even worse gas mileage on my boat, I've been getting maybe 2miles to a gallon for the last couple of years...the new Yamaha SHO 4 stoke engines get 6-8mpg and burn no oil...they cost about $18K
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