The Great Ethanol Scam
05-26-2009, 11:03 AM
#1
The Great Ethanol Scam
Got a Spare $1,000?
Last July was bad enough for motorists on a budget—gasoline prices had shot up to more than $4 a gallon. But for some the pain in the pocketbook was about to get worse. At City Garage in Euless, Tex., for example, the first of numerous future customers brought in an automobile whose fuel pump was shot. A quick diagnosis determined that that particular car had close to 18% ethanol in the fuel. For that unlucky owner, the repairs came to nearly $900. The ethanol fun was just beginning.
City Garage manager Eric Greathouse has found that adding ethanol to the nation's gasoline supply may be a foolish government mandate, but it has an upside he'd rather not deal with. It's supplying his shop with a slow but steady stream of customers whose plastic fuel intakes have been dissolved by the blending of ethanol into our gasoline, or their fuel pumps destroyed. The average cost of repairs is just shy of $1,000.
Last July was bad enough for motorists on a budget—gasoline prices had shot up to more than $4 a gallon. But for some the pain in the pocketbook was about to get worse. At City Garage in Euless, Tex., for example, the first of numerous future customers brought in an automobile whose fuel pump was shot. A quick diagnosis determined that that particular car had close to 18% ethanol in the fuel. For that unlucky owner, the repairs came to nearly $900. The ethanol fun was just beginning.
City Garage manager Eric Greathouse has found that adding ethanol to the nation's gasoline supply may be a foolish government mandate, but it has an upside he'd rather not deal with. It's supplying his shop with a slow but steady stream of customers whose plastic fuel intakes have been dissolved by the blending of ethanol into our gasoline, or their fuel pumps destroyed. The average cost of repairs is just shy of $1,000.
05-26-2009, 11:49 AM
#3
Well the Pres is enforcing CAFE standards to basically tell you what you must buy sooner or later, not too surprising the fiasco ethanol will follow suit. Especially since the whole oil shortage, global warming is absolute bullshit IMO with no statistical evidence especially for the oil shortage. Supply and demand is just a tool for the fools to be mislead as reality goes around it.
Ironically they want to address CAFE ways with ethanol put into the pumps which drastically reduce the MPG our vehicles get, brilliant. It's just another method used to conserve more oil for whatever the military and/or government deem worthwhile when we're still reliant on middle east for oil and they reduce production to make a quick buck and raise the price at the pump.
Ironically they want to address CAFE ways with ethanol put into the pumps which drastically reduce the MPG our vehicles get, brilliant. It's just another method used to conserve more oil for whatever the military and/or government deem worthwhile when we're still reliant on middle east for oil and they reduce production to make a quick buck and raise the price at the pump.
Last edited by Vlaze; 05-26-2009 at 11:51 AM.
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