WELL that explains that burning phart I had last night..
the internal combustion engine is suffering liver damage.
I’ve been saying this for years and I still sometimes get kickback from green freaks about it.
I’ve had three cars with O2 sensors damaged by it, and nearly every 2 cycle and 4 cycle yard engine I own.
I’ve become a master at rebuilding 2 and 4 cycle carburetor systems because of it.
There is one solution ... Don’t let your car drink and drive.
epa to consumers: “Not our problem. We make the rules and regs, you have to live with them. Now shut up and sit down.”
The EPA - traitors to Americans owning an automobile.
Carrosis?.....................
Wreaks havoc on lawnmowers. If you leave gas in the tank over the winter, forget to dump and replinish and start er up you are out for a carb rebuild. I have had to change my decades old sloppy habits wrt lawnmowers. No slack or forgiveness now with this ethanol crap. It will screw up a mower big time.
The Republican House of Representatives has the power to limit the ability of the EPA bureaucrats create and enforce these mandates. It chooses not to even try.
“Warning! Do not operate! This machinery is under the influence of alcohol”
Local gas station supplies 91 octane ethanol free. After expensive rebuilds on my lawn tractor and snow blower, and the loss of an outboard motor, I only use 91 octane for my small engines. No problems so far.
Believe me its worth the extra cost.
StaBil Marine formula for ethanol seems to help. I can’t objectively say how much, but the throttle body freeze up and engine flooding I got in the winter stopped after I started using it. Expensive lesson.
Both my cars get it added every fill up.
I think we oughta make these EPA pukes, the politicians who voted in laws to mandate it and the cronies that bribed them to do it to drink a gallon of it.
Ahhh, once again we see those pesky unintended consequences of gubermint meddling are alive and well.
Anyone who has torn down a small 2 stroke carb can tell you ethanol demolishes engines... Rubber/plastic parts swell and harden and if given enough time eventually dissolve them.
However, ethanol is a great anti-knock agent, but I don’t know what levels it would be needed to support just this effect.
Ethanol was being used for anti knock from the beginning but was replaced by Tetraethyllead in the 1920s... Which of course was just flat out insane, but not recognized at the time. We literally pumped uncounted amounts of neurotoxin into our environment burning fuel with TEL, and it wasn’t until the 70s that finally this stupidity was discovered and ended.
I am curious what level of Ethanol is needed to aid in Anti-Knock.. if it is 10% as most gas has these days, or less.
However given the choice between having to do maintenance on an engine, or pumping lead into the environment I’ll take the engine maintenance every time. The idea that its some grand replacement for gasoline proper with E85 and whatnot, well that’s just flat out silliness.
Refine more gasoline without the ethanol so we can use it in these vehicles and not pay thru the nose. sheesh, simple fix.
They knew all along.
If EPA’s Ethanol is produced from Corn, then how many gallons of Diesel or Gasoline does it take to produce one gallon of Ethanol?
* Note: Prep. to plant, planting Corn, weeding, fertilizing, harvesting, transporting, the actual production of Ethanol, and final transportation to customer friendly filling stations all require combustion of fossil fuels.
It will be interesting to see how our tax dollars are being used by the Feds to subsidize the production of Ethanol which the Federal EPA documents causes damage to the engines we buy from partially nationalized, Federally regulated automobile manufacturers.
Factoid for the Day: Corn is a Green and renewable, whereas Tax Dollars are green, but not renewable.
1992 Buick Roadmaster
has stall episodes and gets less fuel economy on alcohol blended fuel. I pay the 14 cents a gallon premium and save headache and gas.
Government needs to eat its own cooking.