[AT] gas problems--off topic now do to missinformation

[Al Jones]

I know I probably shouldn't even bother, but what the hey. Most all the gas around here now is 10% ethanol.  Granted we don't work out gas tractors hard in the field every day, save the occasional plow day, most of the work they do is odd jobs that don't require max. horsepower.  But I have just not seen the doomsday scenarios with ethanol that others report.  The gas in my Cub had set in the tank since last October or so and it has started and ran fine on it all spring, I just added more the other day.  I really haven't tried to check it but I haven't noticed a huge drop in gas mileage in my vehicle either.  

I live on the farm and have done so all my life and am not a fan of subsidies.  Over the years, I would say 99% of the corn produced on our farm has stayed right here until it could travel through the digestive tract of a hog.  That said, I would imagine that the other things that the feds waste our money on add up to a whole lot more than what they have given away for corn ethanol.  I also think that there's no silver bullet when it comes to developing new energy sources and we need to learn all we can so we should be making ethanol, fracking, stacking, drilling and whatever else until someone hits on something better.

Al


-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Rotigel <rotigel at me.com>
>Sent: May 11, 2013 8:15 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] gas problems--off topic now do to missinformation
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>Agreed! 	First, my antique tractor runs better on gasoline that does not contain ethanol.
>		Second, my truck (which I use to haul my tractor to shows) gets poorer mileage with the "new" blend.
>		Third, When ethanol is added to gasoline it goes bad in my antique tractor/engines faster.
>		Fourth, Since the ethanol subsidies cost me some of my hard earned dollars, I can buy fewer antique tractors and engines.
>	Dave
>PS, Drill baby, DRILL!
>
>On May 10, 2013, at 11:59 PM, Sewell, Steven wrote:
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>> I think we need to get back to talking about all the antique tractors. 
>> 
>> 
>> Steve Sewell
>> Albany, Ohio USA
>> sewell at ohio.edu
>> sewell at atis.net
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>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Dave Rotigel [rotigel at me.com]
>> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 9:51 PM
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>> Drill Baby, DRILL!
>>        Dave
>> PS, End the welfare payments to BOTH oil and the farmers!
>> 
>> On May 10, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Jim & Lyn Evans wrote:
>> 
>>> Where do you get your information?  Subsidies on corn ethanol ended on
>>> Jan 1, 2012.  Meanwhile, we subsidize big oil 10 billion to 52 billion
>>> dollars per year! http://priceofoil.org/fossil-fuel-subsidies/
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