[wideglidejoe]

WardL,

Yes, I meant ethanol...............thanks for the catch!

I avoid it like the plague. Not because I work for a refinery either. Even if I didn't work in a refinery or make/blend gasoline, I don't like the stuff! It's OK if you run it 100% pure, and have all of your equipment set up to handle it, but I don't like it mixed. Even in a stock daily driver w/EFI, your mileage suffers when running 10% ethanol. So much, that I'll gladly pay up to 15 or 20 cents per gal for 100% gasoline.

Then, from the economic and political side, it just isn't sustainable! There's not enough land to grow enough corn to make this sustainable. Corn to ethanol has driven the farmers to substitue other grains to feed their livestock, which drove up the price of those grains too. Corn to ethanol has taken food off of our table, and driven food prices up. Just look at how many of our foods have high fructose corn syrup in them. If/when they can make ethanol from switch grass or algae or ??, then maybe it is sustainable and it might make economic sense.

OK, I'll get off my soap box now, on the economics and politics. Thanks for letting me vent.

Any kind of alcohol, methanol, ethanol is a "cleaner". If you normally buy 100% gasoline, then you buy a tank or two of 10% ethanol blend, it will clean your gas tank, fuel lines, etc. and foul your fuel filter. So, be prepared to change them too.