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Old 07-27-2012, 01:39 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by dippasan View Post
To add insult to injury, the fossil fuels and carbon footprint to produce the ethanol in E-10 is greater than had the E-10 not been in the fuel to begin with. i.e. fertilizer for the corn, fuel and equipment to plant, harvest, process, deliver the corn and manufacture the E-10. On top of that I can only imagine how much gasoline with E-10 is disposed of, properly or improperly each year because it performs so poorly after such a short period of time.
Not to mention the mpg on ethanol treated gas is well below, and proven, straight gas

sorry maxum hit this on the head, but i was just saying it in leymans terms
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