Who wants to go in on a 54 gallon drum of VP SEF94 Fuel?

[8433jeff]

You know, I was talking about Ethanol today with some people. I hate that almost every single gas station within a 5 mile radius of my house is *May Contain Up To 10% Ethanol. I was listening on the radio today on NPR that NASCAR just inked a 6 year deal with Sunoco for a fuel called "Sunoco Green E15". That means at every pit stop you will hear an announcer say so and so just dumped 2 cans of Sunoco Green E15 into his racecar. I'm a roadrace guy myself, but just think of ALL the Legions of NASCAR fans that will get a Subliminal Message that this ethanol is going to make their car run like a racecar and heck its even "green". I HATE ETHANOL. Bottom line is that the EPA wants to add more Ethanol to Gasoline in the next couple of years, they want to change it to 15percent ethanol. On the radio the reporter said if the EPA had their way it would be more like 27% Ethanol per gallon at the pump.

Also, on this radio vignette they talked to this professor of some kind of petro-chemical degree, and he said that he made 2 identical 600 mile trips, one trip using E85 (available in only a handful of places across this great country of ours) which is 85percent ethanol 15 percent gasoline, the other on regular 87octane pump gas. This prof. got his fuel from the same station on both trips. He got his notes and said that he noticed a 37% increase in gallons used of the E85 vs the trip with the regular 87 octane. He was driving a FlexFuel Chevy something or other. Now I know hardly anyone uses E85, and this is an EXTREME example, but dang if that doesn't say something about ethanol not being the great stuff some people and politicians say it is.

The EPA will eventually have its way. Gasoline is going to die in our lifetime or our kids lifetime if it keeps going the way its been going.

Sorry to post this here, but it seemed like a good place for it. I think I'm going to head down to my local auto parts store soon. They sell mostly all of VPs Race Blends by the 5gallon jug. I definitely like the idea of the SEF94.

I miss the smell of leaded race gas.

Adam

Well I hope you can get the carb straightened out easily.

My dad run some E85 in his dodge truck that had the flex fuel badge on it. He got around 9 mpg vs 12.5 for gas. He doesn't drive hardly any interstate all short trips. Still I can't see the savings and most analyst say ethanol takes more energy to make than it saves.

Its a boondoggle. Govt loves it, at 10% ethanol the govt gets an extra gallons tax on the fuel it takes you to do what you want. It redistributes income to farmers and corporations all in the name of saving the planet, but the corn based ethanol mainly used here is a dead end. People I know with the flex fuel cars say it takes a difference of $.44-.48 a gallon to break even using the E-85.

 

[rmihalek]

I read in the Wall Street Journal that 45% of all corn grown in the US goes to make ethanol. Probably a lot of deceased moonshiners rolling over in their graves when they learn we're burning it in our cars instead of drinking it!

So if E10 takes up 45%, then E20 will take up 90%, then where do we go for E85?

Maybe Al Gore can fabricate an answer for us.