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posted by  TONY H on  Fri Jul 4 06:44 CST 2008
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George, if you ever find some website that has these issues in it. Or if you have any "write your congressmen" type stuff, pass it along.

Our gas in New York all contain 10% ethanol. ridiculous! You have to hear the horror stories from my mechanic friends. Not only does it go stale in very short order but it plays havoc with carbureted cars. Proof of that is two of my 'seasonal ' vehicles. I have owned my boat for 24 years, I have always Winterized it the same way. This is the first year I had to take the three carbs off to clean the crap that formed in the bottom of the Bowls. I always drain the carbs but the slightest residue grew green slime this year. Same thing happened this year to my Jeep.
It takes 4 gallons of fuel to make 3 gallons of Ethanol, the gas is not as volatile, not to mention that the corn that can be feeding livestock as well as us is now being funneled to make ethanol. So now the demand and price is up on Corn. Just another Gov't knee-jerk reaction. " Let's make ethanol to stretch a gallon of gas" dumb.
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