Wow! Oil hits $60/barrel today

[Onefast99gsx]

Ethanol, Alky, etc... yes, runs way cooler You gotta burn much more of it though. My friend uses 100% alky in his drag car. It's about a 2:1. Twice as much as like a regular race gas. It's cheaper than race gas per gallon but you half to multp. by 2 because of the burn factor. It dries everything out too. You have to mix a little oil with it.

This is all 100% alky i'm talking about. I don't know anything about the blends and the E85's yet to speculate on.

[JET]

, theres more oxygen in the fuel so more power out of it as well. The only thing I don't like about it is that it does reduce your gas milage so in a way you dont save really any money in using it. =Jason-
Think about what you just said. If it takes more to go the same distance, how are you getting more power out of it?? Ethanol actually has less energy output that gasoline does, so you are correct in seeing a mileage decrease, but there is also a power decrease if the car is tuned properly. If the car is running rich anyway, then there won't be as much of a decrease.

[ABV]

I'm not sure what the difference between Holiday and BP fuel is, other than Holiday advertises thiers as "Blue Planet", which I assume means that it has more ethanol in it or something. But anyway, I have used Holiday in the past, and I currently use BP. The only reason I used Holiday is because there is a gas station just down the street from me, and it was convenient. But when I noticed that my truck started knocking really bad, I replaced the fuel filter, thinking that it was old and clogged, and the motor wasn't getting enough fuel. But when it was still knocking I started using BP more often and noticed that it didn't knock. So, ever since I started using only BP, and nothing else, I haven't had a single problem.

You can take that for whatever it's worth, but that has been my experience, so that's why I use BP.

As far as the gas prices go, I'll just say this. There's little to nothing I can do to change what I get charged for gas. I could waste my energy worrying about gas prices, and bitching about how they should be lower. But I would rather use my energy torwards things that I have more control over. If gas prices jumped up by $5.00 I might think a little differently, but $0.50 over a 6 month time frame isn't worth my time and effort.