ethanol free gas
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You sir, just sold me on it! I'm going on a road trip with it today so I'll see if it really does get a tad better...although I have 1/2 tank in it now so it won't be pure ethanol free just yet
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Ethanol laced stuff always seems to lower the gas mileage. Yes, you spend less per gallon, but you end up spending more often, so it negates any potential savings.
People often get confused why that is, especially since ethanol supposedly has a higher octane that gasoline. The problem is that ethanol achieves higher energy levels at a higher compression than gasoline does. Naturally aspirated engines will rarely, if ever, have a high enough compression to utilize ethanol's full potential. The result is that ethanol usually has about 66.7% or so the energy of gasoline in most cars/trucks.
Butanol will be interesting if they can get it off the ground. It is around 92% the energy of gasoline, and doesn't cause problems with vehicle's fuel systems like too much ethanol can cause in non-E85 vehicles.
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i am starting to run ethanol free gas now that summer is coming back around again. most people notice just running higher octane gas in there truck makes a bigger difference because the gas at least starts out as ethanol free 87 or higher octane gas where as the 87 octane gas with with 10% ethanol starts out as something like 84 or 85 octane gas and the ethanol bumps it up to 87 octane.
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I've been using higher octane /ethanol free since 1986, after doing 2 or 3 carb kits within a years time on my 84 and 86 gmc's. My mechanic finally asked me what gas I was using and recommended to stay away from ethanol. Fuel system repairs went away thereafter!
Up here in Both Dakota they are ramming ethanol down our throats and highest ethanol free gas is 91 octane, which I use because my trucks seem to run better and mileage is usually a little better. They are also growing a ton more corn all the way to Canada because of subsidized ethanol in gas. A gallon of E-85 is around 3.05.
America has more oil and natural gas than all the middle east combined, if they(fed) would let drilling open up, and quit wasting our tax dollars on 100,000.00 electric cars that nobody can afford, and that put out more carbon footprints from mining operations to get the precious metal required for said batteries.
Up here in Both Dakota they are ramming ethanol down our throats and highest ethanol free gas is 91 octane, which I use because my trucks seem to run better and mileage is usually a little better. They are also growing a ton more corn all the way to Canada because of subsidized ethanol in gas. A gallon of E-85 is around 3.05.
America has more oil and natural gas than all the middle east combined, if they(fed) would let drilling open up, and quit wasting our tax dollars on 100,000.00 electric cars that nobody can afford, and that put out more carbon footprints from mining operations to get the precious metal required for said batteries.
Last edited by ReadRam; 03-24-2013 at 04:10 PM.
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.....America has more oil and natural gas than all the middle east combined, if they(fed) would let drilling open up, and quit wasting our tax dollars on 100,000.00 electric cars that nobody can afford, and that put out more carbon footprints from mining operations to get the precious metal required for said batteries.
You are missing who is behind this and why. The corporate AG lobby (ie, corn farmers) got this going a number of years ago, and had their first legislative win over Big Oil, and they have a "wink and nod" agreement now because they are both prospering so much.
Our ol production is the highest in our history, and one of the reasons that fas is so high is because we are exprting gas (tankers full of it) out of the country (most through Port of Houston), creating a false sense of shortage. And they are charging more for the export gas!
One of the great falacies of the Keystone Pipeline is that it will provide oil, hene gas, for the US. It is all being planned for export!
Corporate lobbyists always win!
(And you are probably correct on carbon footprint on the battery thing!)