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E-10 gasoline: The Real Deal

Most of us probably don't notice a dramatic difference, but we've taken a lot of questions from people who want to know how E-10, a mix of 90 percent gas and 10 percent ethanol, affects their car and their mileage.

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roach3597 - 11/2/2009 10:18 AM
us people in NY are easy we take what ever the state dishes out what goes around comes around

roach3597 - 11/1/2009 7:23 AM
why don,t other have to use it just another way to get more taxes out of the people of NY you get less milage so you by more that means more taxes for paterson wake up NY

ONEBDI - 10/31/2009 5:26 PM
Has anyone witnessed what it takes to get the corn to processing. The corn isn't grown next door to the processing facility. As far as I've seen, it is a constant convoy of 18 wheel dump trucks running back and forth on rural roads around the clock until the fields are empty to get the corn to a central location to be transported to the plant.

marka - 10/30/2009 10:50 PM
ask the rubber seals in your engine if they like an alcohol base or a peteroluim base fuel ----ill give ya a hint put a rubber band in a bottle of rubbing alcohol it will not be as strong as it once was. let see rear main seal cost how much? im no rocket scientist but i think were getting screwed

Joe B - 10/30/2009 1:39 PM
rtaft is 100% correct. E10 has been in use most of New York since the end of 2003, ever since we banned MTBE. The only way NY could meet federal pollution laws in the winter (and year-round in NYC) was to use E10. The pumps may not have been labeled correctly or at all (illegally). See NYS Weights and Measures Regulations, 1 NYCRR, Part 224.8. The label requirements are very clear and are now being enforced.

Dooman - 10/29/2009 5:17 PM
rtaft: if ethanol is in the fuel, it has to be labeled as such on the pump. so no, we HAVENT been running it for years! since the change over i have read on many Dootalk.com threads about new ethenol related problems in areas where ethenol is unavoidable. next point please.....

Tiger Tank - 10/29/2009 4:41 PM
The gas prices are up, we get less MPG and using more gasoline, just don't add up. The consumer is getting ripped off. I use to drive 250miles ona half tank of gas and now 200 miles and the price of gas is way up. The goverment just don't care. I beleive these ethanol plants get Goverment subsidies also.

timeto - 10/29/2009 4:32 PM
I'm down to 19.9 on my last fill up. I was getting 22 to 24.

pioneer1 - 10/29/2009 4:27 PM
In Europe they subsidize diesel fuel not the ethanol. I have been there on three separate occasions and love diesel cars. A few weeks ago drove a 6 passenger Ford C-Max with standard at 160kph (100mph) and got good mileage; my son in law had a diesel Chrysler Durango and got acceptable mileage. I'll take a diesel over ethanol any day. I us my van occasionally and was glad to hear Stabil will help keep my gas effective. They had compressed natural gas at main service areas for the natural gas vehicles. Last time I checked Underwriters Labs had not certified a gas pump for ethanol. Hopefully the first responders have gone thru the appropriate training because ethanol is alcohol that you cannot see burning only feel. Diesel doesn't have that problem. Get in back of a "clunker" and smell the unburned alcohol. Could go on, but...

Postman - 10/29/2009 3:12 PM
Hmmm, "Seperation" is not a word. Googling it will obviously lead to misinformation, because if someone can't spell it, they aren't smart enough to know anything about it.

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