Rodney, the answer is essentially, no.
A diesel is much less picky about the fuel it needs, than a gasser.
With reasonable effort, veggie oil can be made
to be very compatable with diesel.
Gasoline has very exact needs for the lenght of its carbon chains.
Alcohol fermentation is a different
hi,
part time racer here.drag racing has a whole class of cars and events that run
on nothing but ethanol.they would probably would have no problem buying locally
if they could be assured of a consistant product,free of any contaminnants,all
across the country.to assure a level playing
x-charset ISO-8859-1Kieth,
The stuff you wrote about alcohol makes alot of sense.Thanks
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What state? Did you say?
Good ole Minnesota. Between Minnesota and Iowa, there is a lot of
ethanol produced. The first ethanol plant I saw (and smelled) from a
highway was in
Thanks. I particularly like getting these first-handed accounts. Me,
I used to live in Califronia. Now I live in AZ.
Tie-ing this in with the racing fuel discussion, with this handy list
you provide of ethanol plants, it would be nice if a racing series
would take a look at it, and, if some
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Hey all.I know that ethanol is alot cleaner burning than
gasoline,and
is renewable.Those are its good points.On the downsinde,it has a
much
lower heat value than gasoline,making it necessary to use
Folks
First, I'm new to the list.
Living in a state that has 10% ethanol blends available in gasoline
for many years, I would like to know why 'plain' unleaded gasoline is
a few points LOWER in octane than what the gas stations call
unleaded 'plus' that has a 10% ethanol blend?
About 4
Hi MM, bearforu2
Dean Baker adds this:
Economic Reporting Review
By Dean Baker
March 1, 2004
Oil Prices
Oil Prices Back At 2003 Levels
Peter Behr
Washington Post, February 21, 2004, Page E1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59281-2004Feb20.html
Inflation Is Mild, Despite Energy
Both of these articles discuss the recent rise in oil prices. It is
worth noting that this rise in oil prices is not likely to be
reversed, at least in its entirety, because part of it is
attributable to the fall in the dollar. Over the last two years, the
dollar has fallen by approximately
There's also an issue of local pricing and timing here. Gasoline hit
more than $4 per gallon last year if you bought at certain stations at
certain times during the panic around Phoenix last year. I don't know
that we'll see a $3 average this coming year, but if the predictions
of coming
x-charset ISO-8859-1Gas will be hitting $3 soon, probably this year...
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Some recent USA Today articles. Overall, relatively speaking, I like
their reporting on some of these issues:
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