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“We’ve got a lot of plants being built for a demand that doesn’t exist with a (10 percent ethanol) blend,”

Dorganoff wouldn’t know the free market if it slapped him in the face.

The Debate is over!  Global Whining has been confirmed.

The free market will fix global warming.

What’s the mandate they want to push?

From an engineering standpoint a standard car can use up to a 23% blend.  Anything more than that and you risk ruining fuel line components and thengine itself by reducing the lubrication properties of the fuel.

Politicians need to stay out of war planning and mechanical engineering.

The free market will fix global warming.

You can’t “fix” something that isn’t broken; “global warming” is a completely natural process, and isn’t within our purview to change.  As we have since the end of the last Ice Age, we will adjust to it.

"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

Global warming doesn’t seem like such a bad idea.  It got down to 0 degrees last night.

The Debate is over!  Global Whining has been confirmed.

The mandates they want to push are simple; require E10 all over and push to E20 when at all possible--Minnesota has an E10 requirement and there was a push to get E20 required last year, which was scuttled when manufacturers pointed out it voided warranties.

From an engineering standpoint a standard car can use up to a 23% blend.

A standard car might be able to run on it for while, but what of longevity concerns? Certainly ethanol, which acts as more of a solvent then gasoline, is going to be harder on engine parts.

Robert, I think that mandates are a silly way to promote any energy alternative.  If an energy alternative were truly viable in terms of cost and use its use wouldn’t have to be forced on us by the government.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Rob: There is a mileage penalty with any ethanol “blend”, in addition to the lubrication probs you already pointed out.  If this was a great idea, we would be demanding it.

"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

I’d happily use it if it was avail. where I live; my owner’s manual encourages it’s use.

My owner’s manual encourages it’s use as well, but when I put it in my tank I lost a lot of power and 8 mpg.  Even priced nearly a quarter/gallon cheaper then normal gas it ended up being more expensive because it was less efficient.

And that doesn’t even take into account my tax dollars that were used to subsidize the fuel.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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