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In alt.engineering.electrical RFI-EMI-GUY wrote:
| wrote:
| In alt.engineering.electrical RFI-EMI-GUY wrote:
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| | You are missing the point. If I buy gas from a Shell station and Shell
| | has decided to adulterate the fuel with a compound (ethanol) that saves
| | Shell money and returns less BTU energy content to the consumer. Shell
| | oil is receiving a direct benefit by immediate increased profit and
| | later by selling more of the adulterated product so that consumers can
| | continue on their crippled journey. I don't care what Shell paid for a
| | barrel of oil on the market, that is not the point. It is a flagrant rip
| | off, a criminal act that the Florida government is complicit with. If
| | the public fails to realize this, they are very ignorant, and perhaps
| | deserve what they get from their government and corporations who run the
| | government.
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| So provide some proof that this addition of ethanol reduces the total energy
| per dollar AND emits the same level of pollution per mile driven.
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| | Imagine if you went the store to buy a pound of hamburger, but the
| | butcher decides that to increase his bottom line, he will take away
| | about 2 ounces of beef and substitutes two ounces of wet sawdust. Would
| | you be "OK" with that? That is exactly what is happening here in Florida
| | and elsewhere with the gasoline.
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| I can imagine a lot of things. I can imagine you are making all this up, too.
| Show some proof.
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| Its simple; I have a ton of gasoline receipts from the period before and
| after the Ethanol blend was mandated. I was suspicious after I started
| noticing the fuel economy drop in my vehicle. I have monitored the gas
| mileage and done the calculations. Its all very simple. The vehicle is
| well maintained and I have an OBDII reader attached to the computer to
| monitor gas economy and vehicle performance. Do your own research,
| Google for gas mileage and Ethanol fuel and come to your own
| conclusions. As far as pollution out the tailpipe, that is simple logic.
| If I have to burn 12 gallons of fuel to go the same mileage as 10
| gallons once carried me and 90% of that fuel is gasoline and 10% is
| ethanol, I have a worsened pollution situation in that I am now dumping
| byproducts from the 10.8 gallons gasoline plus 1.2 gallons of ethanol.
|
| If you don't beleive me, look up the BTU energy of gasoline and Ethanol.
| Ethanol has significantly less energy than gasoline.

So basically you are saying that because of the added ethanol, you have to
burn 10.8 gallons of gasoline where once before you only needed to burn 10.
If that 10.8 gallons does in fact produce the same pollution (maybe it is a
different mix and doesn't) per gallon, then, yeah, there is an issue with it.

I already know ethanol has a lower energy per volume or weight. But the big
questions are how it affects pollution and foreign oil dependency. If you
have to burn 10.8 gallons of gas that is otherwise the same as the 10 gallons
burned before, then there is an issue with it.

And that's even before we figure in the cost of producing the ethanol, and
the impact on the economy of the higher price for certain food products.

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