Ethanol as a fuel for internal combustion engines was an idea put forth by Henry Ford, with the introduction of the Model-T Ford, the everyman vehicle that brought powered transportation to the family farm. Home brewed and distilled moonshine could serve as fuel, making the family farm still fully self-sufficient, much as growing hay and oats kept the horses fed.
And old T’s ran perfectly well on ethanol, or at least as perfectly well as they ever could.
Remember how the Rats attacked Bob Dole and ADM over ethanol? Once they found out they could get farm belt votes with it they have really changed their tune. Now neither party will do the right thing and end it.
When Henry Ford designed the Model T it was designed to run on alchohol. You would buy your fuel at the pharmacy. Just after that the big oil boom started and they invented gasoline so Ford changed it to a gas engine.
Good. This crap has already destroyed the carburetors in my snow-blower, tiller and edger.
Not an “A.” The old cars run horribly on it. Even 10%. I know.
Ford did it only to gain political points from the farmers and tractors.