[T3] Fuel

[Mike Fisher]

Ethanol in gas is a scam that doubled the price of chicken food!  Drives up
prices & sucks up food needed worldwide!

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 6 Nov 2017 at 14:10, art sterrett wrote:
>
> > Has anyone had problems using the ethanol based gasoline?  I´ve been
> > using regular gas without ethanol and other than the fact that it is
> > expensive the fastback seems to run well on it.  I´ve heard that it is
> > not good to run ethanol in the air cooled engines.  Would like to hear
> > what others think or have experienced!
>
> I run regular gasohol in all my Type 3s and it has never caused me any
> problems.
>
> There appears to be a huge crowd of alarmists out there who are eager to
> blame everything from low-T to the loss of the Ross Ice Shelf on alcohol in
> gasoline. There were some clear concerns about this, as there was with lead
> free gas, in the beginning, but I don't think any of that actually came to
> pass.
>
> What's much less clear is whether there's any real point. The reason for
> adding alcohol to gas was to stretch our supply of gasoline by augmenting
> it
> with a cheaper alternative. The problem is that it looks like raising,
> transporting, fermenting, and processing the crops from which ethanol is
> made may consume more gas than it replaces. If that's true, it's all
> pointless.
>
> While it may have been a good thing for midwest farmers who grew those
> crops, and Archer Daniels Midland who controls much of that market, it may
> not be good for us overall.
>
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