Not here to offend anyone... but I work at an ethanol plant... and have for 5 years.. Will it damage an engine??? yes.. but only if not used properly. Taking E85 and dumping it into an engine that isn't designed to run at the higher combustion temps that it produces can cause damage... but to do that your basically going to have to take an engine and run it at full load all day on E85 to do the damage... and normal engine under normal circumstances... no, it will not cause any damage... As far as it corroding parts... A corrosion inhibitor is added to it at the point of shipping along with it being denatured by adding 5% gas to it. Does ethanol reduce mileage??? yes. Ethanol has a btu rating per pound of about 76000 Gasoline has a btu rating per pound of about 116000 pretty obvious that you are going to get less power per pound of fuel.
The real problem with ethanol is not at the producer... its at the purchaser. ALL ethanol produced in the US is purchased by the oil companies to be blended... ALL OF IT now, If I am blending 10% ethanol with an octane rating of 110 to 114 with gasoline and only getting 87 or 89 for an overall octane rating... just how low of an octane gas are they blending it with??? The answer for that is 75 octane gas for and 87 octane blend... What is happening is that the oil companies are selling crappier gas by blending it off with ethanol the make it acceptable.... The problems everyone has experienced is not the ethanol... its the gas the blend it with is of very poor quality and couldn't be sold on the open market without the addition of ethanol.
Do I believe that ethanol is the answer to our energy problem??? absolutely not.. But we have to start somewhere... right? I believe that every consumer should be able to choose...
Finally.... for those of you that complain the loudest about ethanol.... Please feel free to come up with a better alternative..... Gas wont be here forever.... ThanKs
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