E15 gasoline incoming...
Leaving this link here. I am not aiming to be political with this, but just a heads up... more booze in our dino juice is headed our way.
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Straylight wrote:
...it also has well-documented benefits in re: oxygenation and octane boost without MTBE, and on top of that, a valid and apolitical argument can be made that allowing a renewable resource to shoulder 10% of the demand for gasoline is a decent idea.
Theres some serious flaws with that notion.
Those ‘well-documented benefits’ are laboratory derived. Not very many people drive their vehicles in a laboratory, they drive them up and down the roads. In the ‘real world’ moisture and all sorts of other issues appear. That usually more than negates the benefits because now the vehicle isn’t running at peak performance either.
As for ‘shouldering’ anything, just look at Mex’s earlier post about genuine 1st person results. A 10% drop in mileage running E10 means you are burning every bit as much gasoline is you ever did plus an additional 10% of ethanol. The Ethanol is IN ADDITION to the gasoline, it’s shouldering ZERO.
The other dirty little secret nobody likes to talk about is the quantum of ethanol itself. If you look at the total amount of ethanol produced and compare it to the quantity of gasoline sold, amount exported, and the other uses you will see the numbers don’t jive.
The retail petroleum industry is rife with rumours and speculation surrounding the ‘spiking’ or ‘doping’ of gasoline, with the skinny margins in retail it’s awfully tempting to add a few extra gallons of cheap Ethanol to the in ground tanks, especially if you’re pocketing all the various taxes as well as the cost difference.
