Damage From Gasohol

[SteveSRT8]

Originally Posted By: shovel

I think it can be considered self-evident that the reason the EPA exists is to author policy based on the protection of the environment. You might say they're something of an Environmental Protection Agency.
I never suggested that 100% of China's pollution problem is motor fuel, I did suggest that EPA measures are what reduce and prevent that level of pollution and that fuel programs such as adding oxygenators is one such program. Please don't allow pedantism to cloud conversation.


China's problems come mixed with centralized planning, and imagining that the EPA is some kind and benevolent organization that just wants to help us is a bit simplistic also.

Without specific tuning of the platform aldehydes are made when alcohol burns in an ICE.

 

[TiredTrucker]

My 1974 Pontiac Catalina with a 400 small block got a study diet of E10 from the late 70's to us finally junking it in 1994. The engine was still not bad, but the car itself was really falling apart. Close to 300,000 miles on it. So much for the older vehicles can't digest ethanol idea.

My 1979 Ford Bronco with 351M engine got a regular diet of E10. No problems there either. Same for a 1991 Bronco we had.

My '98 Chevy 2500 with a 454, again, got a study diet of E10. Nary a problem. Now my 2013 Silverado with a 5.3L is digesting a study diet of E85 and runs great.

My last and current John Deer riding lawnmowers got E10. That last one got near 2000 hours and it was becoming a maintenance problem for everything but the engine. The current one has around 600 hrs on it and runs like a champ. My Briggs pressure washer also gets E10. Nary a problem there either.

I must be dodging a lot of bullets, because I have never experienced, nor have I personally seen, damage that can be definitively proven to be caused by ethanol. Lot of internet anecdotal stuff, but nothing shown in a documented case study regarding any major problems. Maybe because of someone's screwing up on how they stored it or something else, but not due to ethanol itself.