Posted on 03/27/2013 2:17:58 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
My experience has been that pollutants per mile must be worse, as it takes more straight gas, PLUS extra corn to go the same distance.
More gasoline = more pollution in air, no?
People always say “a couple” of mpg lost - but even if it is “a couple” we are talking around 10% for most vehicles.
My late nineties vehicles burn gas a lot faster when corn is in them.
only corn for the ethanol plant....
and he bought several hundred additional acres.
I have run mileage comparisons in the past and ten percent ethanol generally cuts my mileage ten percent below what I get with straight gasoline. This means that the ethanol is doing nothing but polluting the air and harming my engine. I can buy straight gasoline at a store a mile from my house but it currently costs about twenty five percent more than ten percent ethanol. There is no logical reason for that great a difference in price. Ethanol is a government scam, pure and simple.
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