JaxDad wrote:
I've just about given up trying to overcome the government / greenies BS errrr..... I mean brainwashing on this crap.
People (EPA, CARB, etc., etc.) like to Bantu around 'labroratory proof' that there's no real energy loss, but most people don't buy their fuel from a lab-grade source, nor do they drive a 'perfect' vehicle.
The fuel they buy has significant moisture content (which not only has ZERO energy but it degrades the rest of the fuel, with pure gasoline water in the tanks from leaky lids or tanks just settles harmlessly to the bottom, with Ethanol it's absorbed), it fools the fuel management system (too much oxygenates) into thinking the engine is running too lean and enrichenes the mixture, and the rampant abuse in the system (station owners and distributors dumping large quantities of pure Ethanol in to bump up the percentages since it's a huge profit opportunity doing so).
It's not uncommon to have E10 that is actually only 70% gasoline, 80% seems to be about the average.
Just do a little Google'ing and see how many folks there are complaint about the spread between EPA mileage figures and 'real world' figures. That's the same as the difference between what the gov. says you'll get with E10 or E15 and what you actually get.
My Magnum & my first Caprice were dead-on the EPA highway mileage on straight gas; both took about a 1MPG hit (4-5%) on E10. My Dakota also seems to match the EPA rating.
