Nothing good about Ethanol

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B A R R Y wrote:
RST Engineering wrote:
The ethanol is blended with the gasoline right at the tanker truck.

I heard an interview on a financial show a few weeks back that had an
oil company executive telling a completely different story. He
explained that plants and storage facilities needed certain parts and
seals changed to switch from MTBE laced gas to a gas / alcohol blend.

Which explains why the blending is done at the truck instead of the
plant.

Could this be a regional thing?

You think it could take a while to shut down a plant and do the
conversions required?


The whole point of the comment was that they DID spent a lot of time
with plants shut down. According to this guy, it's a done deal.

Most of the stations in the Cincinnati metro area are now selling gasoline
with 5-6% ethanol. My regular supplier didn't sell gas with ethanol until
recently. Unfortunately I didn't check it often enough and ended up putting
50 gallons of 5% ethanol in my Skylane. When I discovered this, I went
through a great deal of trouble to immediately de-fuel the plane, and refill
with 100LL. Needless to say I was quite annoyed by this.

I have done the water/jar test on most stations in the area and the ONLY
ones not containing ethanol were EXXON and the fuel sold at the Kroger fuel
center.

Looks like you need to test for ethanol each and every time you buy autogas
for your plane.

Guy




"180pilot" wrote in message
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Conflict with aircraft fuel systems and Ethanol are many:


http://www.pmawwacs.org/downloads/go...ce_ethanol.pdf

California formulation is only about 5.7 percent Ethanol, so that
Cherokee 235 may get away with it for awhile, especially if it flies
to other airports and refuels with avgas cutting the percentage even
more.

The bottom line is that at the moment producing Ethanol from corn
wastes more energy than it makes according to experts. The EPA has
ruled California no longer has to use it. But will be some time
before stocks no longer contain it. That's what I read anyway.

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:55:05 GMT, "Guy Byars"
wrote:

Most of the stations in the Cincinnati metro area are now selling gasoline
with 5-6% ethanol. My regular supplier didn't sell gas with ethanol until

Try and find on in Michigan that doesn't have Ethanol and it's
probably going to be 10% Ethanol.


Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com