Ethanol Mandate in Austin

...ethanol has been known to destroy lotus fuel pumps...

 

Ethanol is one of those "feel good" fuels that take more energy to produce than its worth.
Gotta give props to the lobby, them boys can cook a story.

 

Dan Stern wrote this on another forum,

"A large Federal study was done of the effects of ethanol-blended gasoline in cars and small engines. They didn’t test cars older than 2001 or so, but the highlights of the findings are pretty revealing: significant loss in fuel economy and small engines ran progressively worse and hotter with increasing ethanol concentration in the fuel. They didn’t see any driveability problems in cars because they didn’t look; they do note no “cold” starting problems when tried as “low” as 50°F. Given those findings, it looks disturbingly like the contradictory conclusion (hooray for ethanol, let’s add more of it to our gasoline!) was prescribed before the “study” was carried out. That’s disappointing, but not terribly surprising."

Here's the study http://feerc.ornl.gov/publications/Int_blends_Rpt_1.pdf