03-26-2015, 05:59 PM
Chip:
Thanks for telling it like it is. I've followed this since it was passed into law...actually, since 1970s Gasohol died a very-deserved death in the market. Ethanol is like various other "Alternative Energy" boondoggles brought us by NON-scientist NON-engineers - which waste energy, do not save it, and cost consumers a LOT in the end.
I despair of telling others of this because I'm immediately attacked with political accusations - you know what they are, no need to repeat them. But the bottom line for riders is: Ethanol is costly; it has the potential to do harm in engines not meticulously set up for them. It offers LESS energy, not more. The bad side effects are more prevalent and likely in marine engines than in car engines; and in small engines, cycles, lawn mowers, generators, than in massive V8s.
To me it's worth a ten-mile ride to get booze-free gasoline - at fifty-cents-a-gallon more
Thanks for telling it like it is. I've followed this since it was passed into law...actually, since 1970s Gasohol died a very-deserved death in the market. Ethanol is like various other "Alternative Energy" boondoggles brought us by NON-scientist NON-engineers - which waste energy, do not save it, and cost consumers a LOT in the end.
I despair of telling others of this because I'm immediately attacked with political accusations - you know what they are, no need to repeat them. But the bottom line for riders is: Ethanol is costly; it has the potential to do harm in engines not meticulously set up for them. It offers LESS energy, not more. The bad side effects are more prevalent and likely in marine engines than in car engines; and in small engines, cycles, lawn mowers, generators, than in massive V8s.
To me it's worth a ten-mile ride to get booze-free gasoline - at fifty-cents-a-gallon more