Re: Recommended gasoline

Posted by Tim Cole On 2022/1/30 8:46:24

There is an overwhelming amount of government material on this subject. If I was still in Dayton I would go to the engineering library and pull the petroleum research on the subject.

Cars will run on other stuff besides gasoline. We run test cars on dry cleaning solvent for example. It throws lean codes.

Here are some items on the subject:

Federal

The energy content of ethanol is about 33% less than pure gasoline. The impact of fuel ethanol on vehicle fuel economy varies depending on the amount of denaturant that is added to the ethanol. The energy content of denaturant is about equal to the energy content of pure gasoline. In general, vehicle fuel economy may decrease by about 3% when using E10 relative to gasoline that does not contain fuel ethanol.

The inability to ship gasoline ethanol blends by pipeline has resulted in the current industry practice of blending ethanol into gasoline at the finished products terminal just before it
is to be delivered to the retail facility or end user.

From The Atlantic Magazine

In the United States, the cultivation of corn for ethanol now requires a staggering 38 million acres of land—an area larger than the state of Illinois. By comparison, the total area of cropland used to produce grains and vegetables that humans eat is only about twice that acreage. In other words, the U.S. devotes enough land to corn-ethanol production to feed 150 million people.

Few Americans realize that to subsidize corn-ethanol production, they are paying almost twice as much for ground beef as they did before the RFS was created. The supermarket price of both flour and rice jumped about 50 percent after the RFS was created, and never fell back. The ethanol program functions as a hidden food tax—the most regressive of all taxes. And the effects on poor Americans are magnified for poor countries that depend on imports of food.

Incidentally, regular gasoline is a commodity and all refiners turn out product to a specified standard. Fuels are then shipped via common carrier pipeline to distribution terminals. Brand differentiation (ie: additives) is made at the point of sale.

About the only tangible benefit of this crap is an octane booster and oxygenator. Useless in the low compression Packards.