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Default Ethanol ate my lawnmower

On Oct 26, 12:31*pm, Frank wrote:
On 10/26/2011 3:07 AM, harry wrote:





On Oct 26, 6:48 am, Steve *wrote:
On 10/25/2011 9:14 PM, RickH wrote:


My car runs better on ethanol free gas too.


LMAO!


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The problem arises because US ethanol is derived from corn. *Elsewhere
it is derived from sugar cane. *It also cause increased emissions of
formaldehyde and ozone. Both cause smog and cancer.
Adding ethanol is another way of improving the "anti-knock"
properteries rather than using lead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol#As_a_fuel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTBE#Al...as_an_anti-kno...


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Ethanol contains traces of other substances depending on what it was
derived from.