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Re: Ethanol Revisit/Charlie
Posted By: Walter Kaprielian In Response To: Re: Ethanol Revisit/Charlie (Carl)
Date: Sunday, 11 December 2005, at 7:00 p.m.
For starters, purchasing fuel with 10% Ethanol means we're buying 10% less "foreign" fuel. 10% is a lot! Meanwhile we're buying the Ethanol from US farm corporations at costs probably higher than fossil fuel, but it makes the greenies happy and the government (no matter who's in power) likes that. Now it's screwing up engines and fuel tanks and you can't seem to legally get rid of the ruined fuel. It's not a matter of just 1 or two gallons. Guess what happens next. People will figure out ways to get rid of the stuff because they're afraid to store 50 gallons of bad gasoline in their back yard until the next scheduled toxic collection at their dump (ours is in May'06). The stuff will either somehow disappear or someone will get killed from an explosion or fire. The greenies will in one case never know where it went, or in the other, work for even greater disposal regulations in the name of safety. A legal action's value will be greater in terms of addressing and solving the disposal dilemma. If we think there's a problem now, wait till the Spring after all the stored ethanol laced fuel has sat all winter and starts to gum up more unsuspecting engines soon after startup. This isn't going to get fixed until it's recognized not as a boating problem, but as an environmental problem. No one feels sorry for boat owners, but gasoline cans stored by your house or gasoline flowing through your sewers or in your water table will get the attention this issue really deserves. Someone didn't do their homework when they came up with this as a solution to the earlier MBTE problem. Walter
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