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Old 10-16-2012, 11:43 AM   #19
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Ethanol is what's in our gas (unfortunately) and it's hard as hell on engines. The drought this year might have congress sign off to eliminate ethanol from our fuel for one year, I hope that happens.

I bought Methanol though, much different type of alcohol than ethanol; reason is I have alcohol/water injection units on my fleet of Toyotas, it has all pros and no cons other than an initial setup cost of about $400. It cleans the engine, provides about a 15% increase in power and fuel economy and helps suppress detonation under boost (truck has a blower on it running about 8psi of squeeze).

Went from 275 miles on a tank of fuel to 330+ so it more than pays for itself in saved gas. I've been buying it in 10 gallon batches but it's almost $10/gal now so I got the barrel for $210 total, or $3.81/gal. I hate running out, have to drive almost an hour to get the stuff. Now I have about a 2 year supply! woo hoo!
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