Last Friday the Biden administration raised the mandatory amount of biofuel, specifically ethanol, that must be blended within the U.S. gasoline supply. The previous amount of 10% (summer blend) was raised to a year-round 15% (waiver) by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This is likely to lead to two sets of bigger issues, less food and higher gas prices.
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Wonderful. My fuel prices just took a huge jump because I just dropped a new engine in my truck at the beginning of the year and there's no way in hell I'm going to fuck it up by burning E15 in it.
I've been wanting to find out what kind of mileage I'll get burning non-ethanol anyway. I guess I'll find out now.
Once again, fuck Joe Biden!
ReplyDeleteI have my Electraglide tuned for 90 octane real gas and I get 50 mpg. If I put any grade of ethanol fuel in it the fuel mileage drops to 44ish mpg and my seat of the pants dynometer tells me the bike is not as quick.
ReplyDeleteI burn nonethanol in my truck and all machinery. With my truck I have so much more power and I get better mileage. I ran corn gas in my truck for a few months and one day decided to put some real gas in it. I left the station and drove maybe a half a mile. I got on and entrance ramp and punched it and holy Jesus. I thought the truck was gonna come out from under me. The increased power is that significant.
ReplyDeleteWhat's wrong with these people?!? It costs more than 1 unit of energy to produce 1 unit of energy from Ethanol from corn. Brazil can get away with it because they use sugar cane.
ReplyDeleteThe only rationale explanation is that they want to burn up your gasoline engine to force transition to electric. FJB! FJB! FJB!
When I was shopping for a new (to me) pickup several years ago, I looked specifically for one that was flex fuel. I already knew about this 15% ethanol coming from Obummer's term in office. It also gives me the option to run the dreadful E85 alcohol fuel if needed in the event of gas shortages.
ReplyDeleteThe manual for my Classic '02 Durango 4.7 only mentions 10% ethanol without any warnings about using more. There aren't any stickers which say anything about it. The local Shell stations sell an ethanol free gas that I use in my lawn equipment but it's more than another $ per gallon which puts it over $5.00 in an area where it's running about $5.39 & 9/10. Fortunately, I'm retired and don't run around much so we can use the wife's '16 Camry, I guess.
ReplyDeleteWe just got up from a nap and I asked my wife what Biden had done while we were asleep so the first thing I see is this.
They WANT food prices to go up so they can control who gets food and how much. They want gas prices to get so high that people cannot afford to drive and will locate to large cities where they are easier to control. They want your cars to break down so you will have to depend on public transportation or relocate to a large city. They also hope this will drive people to buy electric vehicles that will need to be charged from a grid that cannot even keep power on 24/7 in some areas. This year will see many people having to choose between buying food, paying rent/mortgages or buying fuel to go to work. Most will have to choose to buy food. Budget a little for ammo if you can.
ReplyDeleteYep. You described Agenda 21.
DeleteAccording to a Liberal source:
ReplyDelete"Only 2,300 US gas stations—about 1.5% of the country’s roughly 150,000 fueling stations—sell E15 gas. The remaining 98.5% of gas stations may not have the proper equipment (pdf) to safely store E15".
From here: https://qz.com/2153905/bidens-approval-of-e15-gas-will-only-affect-1-5-percent-of-gas-stations/
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Ethanol is rough on paper filters. It makes engines cleaner overall. Much easier to rebuild. No ethanol will get you a few more miles to the gallon that blends. As long as you don’t have a turbo or super charger that gets some of it lubrication via the fuel flow you should be fine.
ReplyDeletePaper fuel filters have not been used in a long time. What the ethonal attacked was the glue in the filter that held the paper in place.
Ethanol is not bad as a fuel source. Just not as many BTU’s as gas.
It may (although I can't imagine how) make an engine easier to rebuild, but does it make it cheaper to rebuild? No?
DeleteNot only that but every one of my small gas engines (splitter, generator, chainsaws, blower and trimmer) all specifically say no E15.
Horseshit. Ethanol attacks many parts, why does the warranty of many engines void coverage if over 10% E is used?
DeleteEthanol screws up the fuel computers, it's like constantly running on a engine computer that has had it's brain wiped by being disconnected from battery power.
Ethanol has destroyed many of my small two stroke gas tools. I only avoid the problem by other using pure gas in them, and hang the cost.
FJB wants to add water to the gasoline next.
ReplyDeleteObama laughs.
FJB funny president.
It's worth the extra $0.50 a not to fuck your engine.
ReplyDeleteA can of Sea Foam every 2-3 tanks helps keep shit clean too.
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Can’t find a better article to tag along with a fuel rant.
ReplyDeleteMine’s diesel.
Where I am it’s $5.70 9/10 per gallon as of yesterday.
Ethanol in gas engines?
How about mandatory DEF in diesels?
DEF is watermelon* bullshit at its worse.
* Green on the outside, red on the inside.
There are DEF removal options which all void warranty. Cue Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon.
Kerosene works in diesel motors too…in proportion.
Just needed to let that out.
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I just checked what my 2011 vehicle is supposed to use. It plainly states not to use gas with an E rating higher than 10. I just bought gas this morning. The dispenser has plainly visible label stating ethanol content 10%. I'm guessing the gas stations are going to have to change all of their e content disclosure labels.
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Oh, I paid $4.99/gal.
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I have a 2018 chrysler pacifica mini van. You laugh. But it is low enough to the ground where the dogs can jump in and jump out without screwing up their shoulders or mine And it can fit a 4x8 sheet of plywood and the hatch closes. Anyway. It has a sever transmission problem (known problem on all pacificas) on some of the shift points if you left off the gas while it is doing the shift. Amazingly when I switched to non-ethynol gas the problem almost went away. I would hate to see what E15 would do. It almost felt like the transmission dropped on E10.
ReplyDeleteEthanol is really bad for small engines. I've got 14 of them - mostly lawn stuff.
ReplyDeleteJust think of what this has been doing to food prices all of these years. Food corn is suffering for this ethanol shit. Why do you thing a box of cereal is $6!!!
Liberals really suck!
Every. Single. Day...I find new reasons to hate that retard in the White House even more.
ReplyDeleteAlcohol free gas here is $6.09 compared to $5.09 for 10% alcohol gas
ReplyDeleteEthanol plants around South dakota sell the brewers kernels after they make fuel with it. So the argument that it takes food out is just propaganda. Makes good feed also. Ethanol attracts water and rusts the metal fuel tanks it also boils at lower temp then gas so that is why it doesn't run good in small engines
ReplyDeleteEthanol is corrosive and the brewers kernels as you called them don’t have much nutritional value. More of a filler.
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paste "out of order" signs on any EV charger you see. and yes JB can fuck himself.
ReplyDeleteThere's some youtube(s) showing how to separate the gas from the ethanol. Looks pretty simple but not sure about truck sized fuel amounts.
ReplyDeleteYea, giveaway to corn farmers, kickback to the politicos, fuck up everyone's car, and pollute the air more. Liberals must love that shit.
I like it.
ReplyDeleteI’ll show my ignorance by declaring that I have no idea where to purchase ethanol-free gas. Can someone please help?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.pure-gas.org/ or google "Ethanol-free gas near me"
DeletePerhaps in your area Pure-Gas is useful, here I've found it is not, perhaps it is not updated enough, I don't know.
DeleteThe only reliable source of E-free gasoline here is Sunoco Race Fuel; 100 octane, and very expensive. I can only afford to run my small engines on it.