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California refused e-10 as long as they could... yes, California.
Why? Because it makes VOC emissions worse. Every locality where e-10 is used has to file for a summer vapor pressure exemption because it has ~ 15% more volatile material. No, it is NOT the alcohol that is volatile - it is less volatile than gas; it MAKES the gasoline more volatile.
Yes, these are also facts that can be verified on the net or in the lab.
Yes, alcohol can make a fine fuel, if everything is engineered for it. What rubs me is the exemptions and subsidies. Either they can make it stand on its own feet or they cannot, and they cannot. They can't use environmental regulation - where statutory authority exists - because they CAN'T MAKE A SCIENTIFIC CASE THAT IT IS BETTER. They can make the case in the pres, but not with facts, where it counts.
Remove ALL of the subsidies and let ethanol stand on its own. That is all I ask.
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(when asked how he reached the starting holds on a difficult rock climbing problem that clearly favored taller climbers - he was perhaps 5'5")
"Well, I just climb up to them."
by Joe Brown, English rock climber
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