If You Want Better MPG Do Away With Ethanol
By gewcew23
@gewcew23 (8007)
United States
August 9, 2008 11:18am CST
We should have all by now heard Obama's inflate your tires plan to improve your gas mileage. While it would work if you were driving around on flat tires I have a plan that will actually improve your gas mileage, no more ethanol. Currently gasoline has 10 percent ethanol, which this mixture cost just as much as pure gasoline but your automobile will get less mpg on it.
So instead of trying to force a fuel down our throats that does not work, and makes everything more expensive, give us a fuel that does work, Gasoline, Natural Gas, and Hydrogen.
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
9 Aug 08
This is completely absolutely totally true. As I've mentioned before, I've been involved in transportation most of my entire adult life. I have done an extensive comparison of the difference of miles per gallon between regular gas and gas with ethanol. My wife and I used the same vehical extensively over a period greater than 30 days with just ethanol gas and then switched it to regular gas. We kept meticulous records as to fuel mileage. Here's what we found. Regular gas gets about 2 miles more per gallon in the 6 cylinder gasoline powered car we tested. Over a year that is a big difference.
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
9 Aug 08
I have my own commercial quality air compressor in my garage and tire gauges aplenty from my trucking days. The tires on our cars are kept at the maximum rated pressures all the time except when a given vehical will be running excessively on gravel roads. Then maximum pressures cause flats. Yes, we have proved this to be true. This is a very handy thing to know if you will be running on gravel a lot because I am not kidding.
I know you were being humorous. I just added this comment for anyone who thought you were not being funny.
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@martahandey (165)
• United States
9 Aug 08
Haha! One Hundred percent agreed with that statement my friend! I read a while back on the gasoline pump that every gallon had 10% ethanol, and I got very upset. I mean, did anybody ask our opinion whether or not we wanted that? It should be pretty apparent by now that ethanol is a bust and does not power our cars... at least not in the way they are manufactured now!! The answer is to drill... if anybody wants immediate relief, then we have to drill. And all of the profits we will make by drilling our own oil can be used to fund the research for alternative fuels!
@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
9 Aug 08
Yeah that 10 percent I believe is mandatory, so we have no choice. I have heard from someone else on MyLot that they have found a gas station that does not have ethanol, but that cannot last to much longer. This station must have had a stocked up on non ethanol gas before the mandatory levels. If one wants to stretch out domestic supplies of gas all on has to do is mix nature gas with gasoline. Shell already does it. Down the road hydrogen will be coming online, and hydrogen cost about 2 dollars a gallon. So if we started drilling for domestic oil and then mixed gasoline with nature gas we would have enough to last us until everyone can switch over to hydrogen which is every where.
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@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
10 Aug 08
It is mandatory for most gasoline to carry some ethanol, but the percentage is largely determined by state law. In Florida gas stations carry "up to" 10% ethanol gasoline. In some states, like Oregon, gas stations must have a "minimum" of 10% ethanol in their gasoline.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
9 Aug 08
Our car gets about thirty to thirty five miles to a gallon, and we use straight gasoline. The idea of using ethanol and contributing to the higher food price is wrong. Even a hybrid car or an electric car (if we can get a long enough cord (
) would be much better once they make them large enough for minivans and larger vehicles instead of those dinky cars that we see driving around.
And now that I hear that ethanol makes less mpg, well we would rather fill up less and have less engine trouble. I guess the environmentalists and the global warmers did not want to hear about that.
) would be much better once they make them large enough for minivans and larger vehicles instead of those dinky cars that we see driving around.
And now that I hear that ethanol makes less mpg, well we would rather fill up less and have less engine trouble. I guess the environmentalists and the global warmers did not want to hear about that. 2 people like this
@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
9 Aug 08
THANK YOU!!! I'm also going to mention the corrosive effects it has on fuel systems. The fuel pump, gas, lines, etc. As soon as it goes in to use in a state the number of these things being replaced jumps. So I guess we can't afford high gas prices but we can afford a monthly garage bill that rivals it. All this did was trade one problem for another on the burden of the american consumer. But I guess as long as the green movement is getting apeased it's ok.
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@thegreatdebater (7316)
• United States
9 Aug 08
I agree with you on the fact that we really don't know alot about what is in our fuel. Did you know that you are allowed to have a certain percentage of water in your fuel, and some fuel companies pump water into their fuel. Many don't know that there is about 2 - 5% of Bio-diesel mixed in every gallon of diesel fuel. The reason they are using Ethanol, and Bio-diesel in the fuel is because of the tax break the government is giving them makes the fuel about $.30 to $.50 per gallon cheaper. If you are a rack where get the fuel, and blend it your normal profit margin is about $.005 to $.03 per gallon. As you can see, this is why they are doing this. But, I agree that they should stop, and tell the American people what is really in our fuel.
@eagletrek2 (5514)
• Kingston, New York
10 Jul 16
H I just found a shop that does not have ethanol in their runleaded gas
