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You're nuts!

I've never run ethanol but i've had a lot of experience running methanol, basicly the same thing and except for being expensive (we had to pay 65 cents a gallon buying it by the drum in the mid 50s and Shell was the only producer) it's a lousy fuel. It only has about 1/3 the heat of combustion that gas does so where we could make a 1/4 mile run on less than a gallon of gas it took over a gallon of alcohol and mixed with 90% nitromethane 5 gallons / 1/4 mile. The only thing good about it was that it burned slower than gas and if you poured enough through the engine you could get more hp.

It also raised hell with fuel systems, that is why people have expensive repair bills if they buy the crap made by ARCO, it has alcohol in it as does Union 76 (now Tosco) as of a few months ago. Anyone that uses it is asking for expensive trouble plus reduced mileage.