[AT] Re[2]: [Farmall] running a Farmall H on ethanol

[Spencer Yost]

The purpose of my original post was simply correct a very common
misconception and hopefully instill some semblance of academic rigor to the
debate and not let people get away with saying whatever they want to say
without justification, verification, supporting data and the like.  The
purpose was NOT to advocate ethanol as a viable alternative to gasoline.

Also, I could not corroborate your data.   All the sources I checked
(fueleconomyone.com, the EPA, etc), all listed about a 20% drop in economy,
not the 66%+ you indicated.  Must have been some other problems with your
vehicle(ie tuning, etc).

Spencer Yost
Owner, ATIS
Plow the Net!
http://www.atis.net

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On 9/4/2005 at 3:20 PM DAVIESW739 at aol.com wrote:

>Spencer after being involved in one the  government studies using 85
>percent 
>ethanol and 15 percent gasoline I can tell  you that those figures had to
>be 
>made up or just plain biased because in the  actual test we burned as much
>gas 
>as we would have before the change over. also  we had to burn all that 
>ethanol. 
>I wonder where some people get there test  figures from. We sure couldn't
>do 
>any better 5 to 6 MPG in a Chevy S 10 4  banger. Had to put a 40 gallon
>fuel 
>tank on them to get back home from a town  trip.
>
>Of course we may have just been bad drivers or something thing like  that
>but 
>I still say its not going to work and if it did them why don't we see 
>more 
>of it. I would like to use ethanol if it was practical but its not.  
>
>Walt Davies
>Cooper Hollow Farm
>Monmouth, OR 97361
>503 623-0460  
>
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