[Farmall] Sta-Bil

[ebony51 at frontiernet.net]

Jim,  Ethanol had a pretty early history in Nebraska too.  It goes back to the 1930s, and the army built a plant in Omaha in early 1940s for military use.  However, enthanol never got serious until the gas prices went up in the 1970s and later.  

http://newsroom.unl.edu/releases/2006/11/03/'Ethanol's+Lost+History'+is+Nov.+16+presentation+topic


I got a niece whose husband has managed an ethanol plant for almost 20 years ago.  Essentially just a big distillery.  

As I wrote earlier, still can buy regular gas in Nebraska...but some would consider it almost "unpatriotic" to do so.  You probably saw where the Iowa governor recently pushed for 15%.  Big boom in ethanol plants two-three years ago, but some pretty good bankruptcies too over it as probably too many folks jumped on the bandwagon.

I have heard arguments all around, but I still think it looks like it takes a lot of energy (particularly in Nebraska with irrigated corn) to produce the corn to make enthanol.

Larry      


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Becker" <jim.becker at verizon.net>
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Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 10:48:53 PM
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Ethanol free gas may be available in Iowa, but Iowa was pushing ethanol in 
gas before anyone else knew what it was.  I think it was in most of the gas 
there 30 years ago.  Oxygenated gas is required by region, and the regions 
are covering more of the country all the time.  MTBE was the original 
oxygenate but now ethanol is allowed as an alternative.  I don't know if 
MTBE is still used anywhere or not.  It is nasty stuff and probably should 
be banned if it isn't.

You will not find lead in gas at a conventional gas station anywhere in the 
US.  There are a few places like "superfuels" that sell things like avgas. 
Those places generally only pump into your portable containers and can get 
in big trouble by pumping into a highway vehicle.  I think about the only 
TEL that remains available is in 100LL avgas (maybe in some other avgas as 
well).
Jim Becker

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From: "Ronald L. Cook" <rlcook at longlines.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 8:54 PM
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> That fuel is available yet in Iowa.  No ethanol.  But also NO lead.
> I buy that for my storage tank.  Goes in tractors and mowers, etc.
>
> Ron Cook
>
> Salix, IA
>
> Mike Schmudlach wrote:
>> The station has regular gas with out any ethanol.
>>
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