Turtle n Peeps wrote:
I can do the math, thank you. I can read too.
Did you notice the language towards the bottom of page 3 - 1 where it says "Fuel economy decreased (7.7% on average), consistent with the energy density reduction associated with ethanol blending (in limited tests, this trend was observed to continue to E30)."
This is on at the newest, 2007 vehicles. We have come a long way in computing and tuning since 2007. We have REALLY come a long way since 1999! Like I said; 3 to 4% is the norm now.
It shows on the smog machine and these reductions are large.
Like I said above, I'm no alkie fan. But facts are facts and smog machines don't lie.
I have a M/H that's pre-2007, I suspect there's a few of us out there. Is there a government program I'm unaware of to subsidize the cost of buying a newer M/H so we can exploit this new technology?
Can you please address my example wherein I showed on the '1,000 mile drive' you burned more fuel and made more pollution with E15 than without?
'Smog machines' are more "tests", they don't mean much in the 'real world' we live in.
BTW, none of this addresses the fact that it takes the equivalent of 1.3 gallons of gasoline (in pollution equivalent) to make 1 gallon of Ethanol which even then is only the equivalent to 0.66 gallons of gasoline.
So, in the end, it takes the equivalent of 2 gallons of gasoline to replace 1 gallon of gasoline. Hmmmmm. Anybody remember the $600 toilet seat?
Government efficiency.
