AKBASSKING
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Stop E-15! I've done my part, please do yours!
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Done. :smt001
rondds
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You can give your money to an American farmer in a seed corn hat, or you can give it to a man wearing a turban who wants to kill you……..With big oil calling the shots in DC we really don't have a say anyway….Is ethanol fuel bad in some marine applications, absolutely. Is ethanol production/use efficient, not exactly….However the infrastructure is there already………Is my opinion biased, absolutely…..I am proud to say I am an American farmer!!!!! Please use these renewable resources when applicable.
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MonacoMike
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We are well on our way to energy independence and converting our food resources to run our cars is wasteful and foolish. Interestingly enough, most of the original supporters of ethanol are now against it. Except for the farmers and ethanol lobby, and they have more politicians in their pocket than even the oil lobby. Lol
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kaz911
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My US Import boat now runs so much smoother after I have taken care of all of the "E10" related issues. We do not have E10 here...
Things like Generator fuel-pump impeller dis-integration, water condensed in fuel tanks, Cool-Fuel disintegration, hose replacements, filter replacements etc.
More money, oil and parts (parts costs CO2 to make) has been spent on overhauling those issues than the E10 ever saved the environment.
Put you cars on Natural Gas and so the boats can get their lovely petrol!
I do plan to put in a Nuclear engine in my boat - once they are ready for my size. *G*
Things like Generator fuel-pump impeller dis-integration, water condensed in fuel tanks, Cool-Fuel disintegration, hose replacements, filter replacements etc.
More money, oil and parts (parts costs CO2 to make) has been spent on overhauling those issues than the E10 ever saved the environment.
Put you cars on Natural Gas and so the boats can get their lovely petrol!
I do plan to put in a Nuclear engine in my boat - once they are ready for my size. *G*
sdarc
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Maybe smaller diesel engines that run on biodiesel. Every waterway will smell like a McDonalds though.
Overpowered
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cod
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Done....
Lake Erie Monster
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DONE! BTW we are not really importing as much as we used to from the middle east if you look it up, havent been for a little while
one example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBl5y79Gr0s
one example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBl5y79Gr0s
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JimG
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I support a renewable alternative - isobutanol (there was an interesting article on it in Boating mag). However, I don't support renewables that require subsidies. If it can't stand on it's own, then it is truly inefficient.
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rondds
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If they could invent an engine that would combust water, it would become a commodity, the price of water would skyrocket and nations would go to war over water, the most abundant thing on earth.
Here is an interesting article from Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/04/20/its-final-corn-ethanol-is-of-no-use/
