That’s why Iowa will, later this year, reach a milestone where our production of fuel Ethanol will meet our consumption of gasoline. Withing a couple of years, we will produce more,clean-burning, inexpensive, American based fuel than this country can use. Then we’ll start exporting. That means that oil will be exchanged for corn in the marketplace and I guess that’s kind of fungible.
Iowa rocks!
The problem with Bob’s vision of E85 is that ethanol has a lower energy content. THis can be balanced out by the incereased compression allowed by the ~110 octane that a blend of 85% ethanol and 15% 87 octane gasoline gives except that ethanol isn’t availiable in enough areas to design the engine with the higher compression because it still has to run on crap gas (87 octane). I would like to buid an E85 engine but it is unavailible in my area. Actually I would like to run 100% ethanol but I would then lose the ability to run gasoline other than leaded aviation gas. Before some one says E85 eats gaskets, that’s methonal and nitromethane that do that.
awesome. fungible is a great word.
I can make the same statement…without buying a car! (going to find dictionary…..)
That’s why Iowa will, later this year, reach a milestone where our production of fuel Ethanol will meet our consumption of gasoline. Withing a couple of years, we will produce more,clean-burning, inexpensive, American based fuel than this country can use. Then we’ll start exporting. That means that oil will be exchanged for corn in the marketplace and I guess that’s kind of fungible.
Iowa rocks!
stoopid site wont let me back out
The problem with Bob’s vision of E85 is that ethanol has a lower energy content. THis can be balanced out by the incereased compression allowed by the ~110 octane that a blend of 85% ethanol and 15% 87 octane gasoline gives except that ethanol isn’t availiable in enough areas to design the engine with the higher compression because it still has to run on crap gas (87 octane). I would like to buid an E85 engine but it is unavailible in my area. Actually I would like to run 100% ethanol but I would then lose the ability to run gasoline other than leaded aviation gas. Before some one says E85 eats gaskets, that’s methonal and nitromethane that do that.