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So, will the use blend in the tank a few times harm anything????
Note: When an oxygenate, such as ethanol, is used, there is less carbon monoxide in tail pipe emissions, but more carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is the greenhouse gas that causes global warming and carbon monoxide is a primary cause of smog. Choose your poison, but ethanol doesn't reduce the carbon footprint. Ethanol burns to carbon dioxide and water.Makes me wonder if we are trying to reduce our carbon footprint by 10% but we increase our consumption by 20%, is there really a benefit?
Not sure if its still true, but the Milwaukee area gas stations (and also in surrounding counties) sell the oxygenated gasoline, at a premium price. It is argueable if oxygenated gas really has any bad effects on bike engines. Personally, I avoid if I can by filling up in the counties other than Waukesha, Milwaukee and Sheboygan that sell plain old gas.
Santa, you have any comment on this? You live in that area. Notice anything with your bikes and the oxygenated gas?
I can't speak for the vintage bikes, but the newer ones built in the last 20 years of so, are not going to have a problem with Ethanol blended fuel.
If you record your gas mileage you will notice a loss of MPG. Other than that I wouldn't worry about it needlessly.
What galls me about the debate is the subsidies paid at both ends here in Mn. Cargill, and ADM are reaping a lot of $$$ riding this wave.
For instance, last summer Ethanol hit $4.50 a gallon and was driving the price of gasoline, which was around $2.60 a gal.
Up she go's and where she stops, nobody knows...
I wish people paid more attention to this stuff. The politicians by way of the lobbyists have shoved this Blended fuels crap up our arses because we're complacent...
Agggh sorry for the rant!
Sanders
(refinery inmate)
The funny thing I can never quite figure out is this: You make ethanol from corn, lobby every municipality to take on a ethenol plant the pollution, the road expense, the expansion of water services, etc, with the promise that it will make jobs, and sell excess corn.
So then the Farmer plants back way more corn than normal (upsets soy bean market) takes out loans on new equipment based on increased corn revenue. The ethanol owners (did someone say Bushy croonies?) don't tell ANYONE it takes more energy to produce it than energy it produces, AND that it has diddly squat to do with saving the enviornment, to the contrary, they promote the stuff based on envirnmental gains!
Then what do we do when it all goes south? When the public wakes up? the Farmer now has no excess corn income to pay for the new equipment and land GOES BROKE Beans are now being grown elswhere, and the farmer has no cash crop market to farm! (Baby Boomers think Sugar Beet Factories here!)
The consumer now feels the rub of the boot stuck way up his ass and knows he's been lied to AGAIN! And drives a way in his lead ass battery hybrid with baldy tires fronm the weight of those lead batteries!
The small towns who bought into ethanol plants are holding the debt of local ethanol bankruptcies, lots of lost jobs, and debt from the overexpansion of the utilities to service the plant! ECONOMY SUFFERS!
And the Ethanol owners (BUCHYS) walk away from another short term, high profit venture of the Rich and Famous at the expense and demise of the American Farmer, The American public, the American small town!
Huh! what is it good for? Absolutely Nothin! Huh!
Sorry about Reds Rant, but it's been on my mind.
Note: Choose your poison, but ethanol doesn't reduce the carbon footprint. Ethanol burns to carbon dioxide and water.
I am not an organic chemist, nor do I play one on TV, but I did have a class in organic chemistry and do have a degree in Zoology.
tb