Re: Now I am getting confused....about ethanol

Posted by paul on April 17, 2006 at 11:05:58 from (66.60.197.133):

In Reply to: Now I am getting confused....about ethanol posted by Bill46 on April 17, 2006 at 10:05:18:

Here in Minnesota we've had 10% mandated in all road vehicles for over a decade, and E85 has been around for several years, should be able to find it every 30-50 miles these days.

It's going to cost a bit more over summer, the timing is _slightly_ off, there are many many millions of gallons of new production coming on-line between now & 2006 (5 new or doubling in size ethanol plants within 60 miles of me alone) - however a lot of suppliers are going to switch from MTBE to ethanol this spring, and that will put a short-term blip on the wholesale price.

Ethanol is hard on some pot metals, and it will dry out & rot certain natural rubber gaskets. Don't know any manufaturer using those products in the past 20 years, and it's only a small problem in old machines, not much of a deal.

The wives' tail about eating metal comes from decades ago when the big oil companies were opposed to ethanol, and spread some bad info along with confusing _methanol_, or wood alchohol into the info stream. Methanol is very low btu, and very corrosive to many things.

MTBE was made from methanol, which is made from pertolium products. So, the corrosive methanol was turned into ground-water polluting MTBE, but _that's_ supposed to be good, and _ethanol_, which is in every beer & whiskey you drink, and made from grain or sugar - that's supposed to be bad? I don't think so.

Ethanol will clean a lot of varnish & crud out of your fuel tank & system that's been floating in there for however long, which will lead to some plugged fuel filters. That's about it. Ain't no big deal, Fill er up & keep on going. E10 just is not the big deal folks make it out to be.

Minnesota has already pased legislation to go from 10% to 20%, or E20, in all road gas in a few years. Laws can change, but it's already in the books, 2012 I believe.

Glad to see the rest of the country starting to catch up. :)

--->Paul

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