Time to sidetrack electric cars and get serious about climate change!

[2004LB7]

It's easy to manipulate statistics to suit your need. Climate alarmists are well known for doing this

 

[turbodieseldyke]

Better off just finding non ethanol fuel to begin with.

I'd find the Geo guy's post and try it anyway. If my diesel fleet went to hell and i went back to gas.

I still have my own anecdotal experience where using a 5gal gas can that had a couple residual ounces of diesel (from fueling equipment during the week) gave me maybe a 10% mpg boost, so i'd also experiment with that. Like a weak 2-stroke mix.

 

[turbobrick240]

I used to wash my homebrew biodiesel with water to remove residual catalyst. Pain in the butt. Definitely wouldn't want to do that with gasoline.

 

[dieseldonato]

I'd find the Geo guy's post and try it anyway. If my diesel fleet went to hell and i went back to gas.

I still have my own anecdotal experience where using a 5gal gas can that had a couple residual ounces of diesel (from fueling equipment during the week) gave me maybe a 10% mpg boost, so i'd also experiment with that. Like a weak 2-stroke mix.

Way back when, we had an old cub cadet garden tractor. It had a split tank, you would start it on gas and switch it over to kerosene. Was kinda goofy to get it right and it didn't really run right on gas and needed heat in it before you changed it over, but it was very fuel efficient. Had to remember to change it back over to gas when you shut it off. Wouldn't start on kerosene. Needed anew plug like once a month. Was eventually replaced with a newer cub, much less fussy but piged gas by comparison.
The removing ethanol via water saturation/phase separation has been "tested" by many people, few will actually send a sample out for testing. Your essentially dropping out several point of octane (which may or may not matter for the application.) And loosing a lot of the anti corrosive agents built into the fuel.

 

[gearheadgrrrl]

I'm running 85% ethanol in my van, no problems. How come you guys are having problems?

 

[dieseldonato]

I'm running 85% ethanol in my van, no problems. How come you guys are having problems?

Unless your van is a flex fuel model I highly doubt it's running right, or making near the power it should be.

 

[gearheadgrrrl]

Unless your van is a flex fuel model I highly doubt it's running right, or making near the power it should be.

It's flex fuel.

 

[dieseldonato]

It's flex fuel.

That would be the reason it runs fine.

 

[oilhammer]

Derp...

 

[benIV]

i got really worried around lunchtime today because the beginning of the morning it was a nice 74 degrees, but then it just kept getting warmer and warmer. By lunchtime it was 95 degrees. if this keeps up it's going to be like 300 by tomorrow.

 

[El Dobro]

As for NJ where I spend 99% of my time, I've not seen pumps for non-ethanol fuel. Probably isn't allowed in NJ (outside stuff like "TruFuel" cans for small engines) since we're following CA emissions regulationss (refer to the "CA Kool-Aid" in my previous post).

Here you go. The link will bring you to NJ stations.
Pure-gas.org - ethanol-free gasoline in the U.S. and Canada

 

[J_dude]

i got really worried around lunchtime today because the beginning of the morning it was a nice 74 degrees, but then it just kept getting warmer and warmer. By lunchtime it was 95 degrees. if this keeps up it's going to be like 300 by tomorrow.

Ok you win the prize, that was good

 

[Rob Mayercik]

Here you go. The link will bring you to NJ stations.
Pure-gas.org - ethanol-free gasoline in the U.S. and Canada

Interesting - only 8 documented in the whole state, though. Looks like most of those are in what I'd consider "south Jersey". I'm rarely down that way, I spend pretty much all my time up in the north part of the state.

Thanks for the link!