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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (30904)	10/20/2010 9:18:40 AM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36918

But 10% ethanol is quite doable. As is 15%. In Brazil they use 100% ethanol. It's clean burning fuel. I should have been more specific when I stated that "E15 would ruin a lot of engines". I should have added "that weren't designed to utilize it". That includes many older cars with carburetors, 2 stroke engines, chain saws, boat motors, lawn mowers, etc.. Some states here currently mandate E10 and it's near impossible to obtain pure gasoline at these places. That's the problem, when choice is eliminated. See pure-gas.org and fuel-testers.com I'm aware of both the pluses and minuses of ethanol as a fuel. It does burn clean and has a nice high octane rating, but its corrosive properties and lower energy density (poor fuel economy) need to be put into perspective. You mentioned Brazil. Yes, they can economically produce ethanol from sugar cane and many, if not most all of their newer vehicles are designed to run just fine on it. The problem in the States is that corn ethanol is a political creation. It's inefficient, polluting, uses about as much energy to produce as it provides as an end product. It would not exist except for corn state political pressure, subsidies, mandates and misguided advocacy from some, but not all, environmental outfits..