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Re: 1990 VW Jetta idle problem


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Posted by Jonathan Lathbury on May 05, 2013 at 21:00:31 from (98.92.75.169):

In Reply to: 1990 VW Jetta idle problem posted by Jonathan Lathbury on May 05, 2013 at 14:04:06:

I think my commenets have been mis-understood. The primary point I was trying to make is that ethanol is not the cure all that it has been promoted to be. If it works for you then great. However for those of us that it doesn"t work well for then why should we be denied the simple choice of buying clean E0 gasoline? Ethanol has been forced upon us with little or no choice in the matter. Clean gasoline without ethanol has become a boutique fuel and in some parts of the country virtually unavailable.

I used to be an ethanol booster. I listened to Paul Harvey as he promoted expanding ethanol production. I bought into the notion of growing our way out of "foriegn oil dependence". In the 80s & 90s when I traveled through the midwest I made a point of buying E10 "gasohol".

But the fact still remains that Ethanol is corrosive. It eats rubber components in fuel systems. It lessens fuel economy. It eats fiberglass gas tanks found in many boats and motorcycles. It absorbs moisture especially if exposed to a humid climate such as what I live in.

The Pure-Gas.org website is not some cult site. It is a site devoted to one thing, making available a list of every non-ethanol gas station, marina, and airport in the US. The only agenda is the right of choice, nothing more.

All I know is that I have three distinctly different vehicles that have suffered from bad ethanol fuel. Two of them the owner"s manuals expressly say not to run alcohol blended gas. Once I started running E0 then the problems cleared up. I"m not a novice mechanic. I"ve been tinkering on cars and trucks for 40 years. I have several friends and family members whose vehicles ran just fine on E10 but when they ran E0 found that their gas mileage jumped 10% to 25%. If the goal was to use less fuel why then are we forced to buy fuel that costs us worse fuel economy? No one has been able to answer that question, not even the EPA.

As for me my agenda is simple, I want the freedom to purchase the best fuel for my vehicles without ethanol. I want the same for you even if it means you want to buy ethanol blended fuel.


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