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US Congress approves of increased ethanol to destroy K-Cars

Postby 89ARIES » Tue Jun 25, 2013 7:50 pm

Congress authorizes destroying your car through higher gas price, higher ethanol content, lower fuel efficiency, and quicker destruction of your engine. My car tolerates 10% ethanol but struggles to get 23-24mpg. This will kill our K-car folks, or forget that, make owning a car in general too expensive and costly. Chevron now sells E85 junk in our state of California, and E15 will be forced upon you on a gas station near you, whoppee!

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/06/ ... -heats-up/
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013 ... refer=news

Some pure stations, but none near where I live:
http://www.pure-gas.org/index.jsp?stateprov=CA
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Re: US Congress approves of increased ethanol to destroy K-C

Postby capev86 » Sun Jun 30, 2013 4:33 am

ethanol has 50% combustive energy of gasoline. so you really aren't saving much in the long run when you have to burn more fuel. also, ethanol is very corrosive and really only "ok" on flex fuel cars with fuel systems made of higher grade materials. only K car that is compatible is the Dodge Spirit Flex Fuel with the 2.5 mpi engine. stainless fuel lines, plastic fuel tank and the engine has a bunch of internal upgrades to handle E85. the flex fuel cars use nearly twice as much fuel running E85 vs. pure dino juice. there are some advantages to ethanol, but only in racing circuits where super high dollar cars are built that can make use of it. even the newest street going cars out there do not have the sophistication needed to make ethanol fuel a good idea.

this is an example of the stupid people in government pulling strings to answer the wants of some interest group. you know someone is making money on this.....
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