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Sorry to ask, but what does it mean "tax break"?
Gergo
2011/9/4 Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
> Sorry, guess I was a little snarky and, believe me, I'm not a fan of
> ethanol in gasoline (I think it's one of the biggest shams ever perpetrated
> on the American public). I just don't like to see people making
> associations without evidence (there's enough weird crap going on for real I
> don't need to make stuff up).
>
> In my immediate family we have: a 1919 Seagrave Pumper fire engine, a 1946
> Chevy 2-ton truck, a 1955 T-Bird, a 1965 Mustang, a couple old Ford tractors
> and, of course, our 2 Healeys (BJ8 and 100M). All are carbureted (various
> types) and all run fine on California gas which, it can be assumed, contain
> up to 10% ethanol (all run on 87-octane except my BJ8, which usually gets
> premium). I just put 4,000+ miles on the BJ8 buying gas in several states
> and two Canadian provinces without a single problem. I bought a tank of
> premium in Burns, OR which did not contain any ethanol; I thought wow, we'll
> really see a difference with 'pure' gas. No discernible difference in
> performance or even mileage (I thought we might get an 'extra' mpg or so).
> Problems with gasahol in fuel tanks, old rubber lines, diaphragms, etc. I
> can believe.
>
> I'm the curious type, so if I thought the gas was the problem in my car I'd
> drive the 150 miles--that would pretty much empty the tank--and buy a tank
> of pure gas, then drive it home. If my car ran as it should on the way home
> then I'd say there's a high probability of causation; if not, I'd have to
> look elsewhere for the problem.
>
> I'm also not a fan of conspiracy theories; I don't believe refiners or
> distributors--I suspect the ethanol is blended at the refinery--would risk
> adding illegal amounts of ethanol, then admit it in order to get 'tax
> breaks.' AFAIK, only corn farmers and the distillers are getting tax
> breaks.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> On 9/3/2011 10:48 PM, Steve B. Gerow wrote:
>
>> Geez Bob, according to the link you sent, there are 4 stations in
>> California that sell non-ethanol gas - the closest one to me is in
>> Ridgecrest, 150 miles - hardly a solution.
>>
>> If you'd actually read my post below, you would see that I didn't say my
>> 8% ethanol gas was over-mixed, I only said there's an incentive for
>> distributors to over-mix ethanol into gas. It may indeed be over mixed for
>> Healeys, though. Do you know what the ethanol percentage was of the gas we
>> were typically running, say, a year or two ago was?
>>
>> What I'm saying here is my car and those of others I know are running
>> somewhat badly now and I suspect the gas may be the problem.
>>
>> Just because 10% is allowed, which was presumably arrived at in
>> coordination with the current car manufacturers, doesn't mean it will run in
>> our old carbureted cars without problems.
>>
>>
>
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