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Ethanol is great for gas stations too. Your tank doesn’t go as far so you need to visit them more often. Dunno how the complaints about ethanol = bad because i
by Scoundreller 4y ago
Ethanol is great for gas stations too. Your tank doesn’t go as far so you need to visit them more often.
Dunno how the complaints about ethanol = bad because it’s hygroscopic really are. Yeah, 100% ethanol will pull in atmospheric h2o, but in a gasoline+ethanol mix?
If anything, a small bit of ethanol helps “break the phase” and at least runs any moisture through your engine instead of a separate layer which is surely worse. Dunno if any unscrupulous gas stations/suppliers deliberately water down their ethanol laden gas just to earn some extra margin.
- greedo 4y agoEthanol gas is terrible for most car engines and fuel systems.
- fuzzfactor 4y agoThis was a problem when ethanol first appeared in large percentages for a few years until proper materials were included in engineering specifications for things like fuel pumps & hoses. Some conventional wisdom about not putting alcohol into your gasoline does go way back to the Model T days, it was widely regarded as safest just to not do it, since you can't be sure how much water is in the alcohol.
- Scoundreller 4y agoYou saying the manufacturers haven’t adapted anything for cars to run on E10 in the first place?
- dontlaugh 4y agoWhich is the default minimum in most of Europe. Some places have even higher ethanol mixes. Even 90% ethanol is fine for any injection petrol engine. You just need to mix it with something that burns with a visible flame and some detergents.
- staringback 4y agosource: trust me bro
- Scoundreller 4y agoNow, let me tell you about the harms of seed oils on your engine