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Old 07-19-2005   #5
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Re: Study says ethanol not worth the energy

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Originally Posted by LightningGSX
At least for GM vehicles, is/should/will be a reflash available which will make you not even notice you have ethanol fuel.If you have have any source of tuning in your vehicle, regardless of what the misiformed say, you should be able the boost mileage AND power with ethanol fuel
I disagree. If they mixed the same 92 octane gas that we used to get with ethanol, then yes it would bump up the octane level. Notice it still says 92 octane though? Well, they are taking the old 90 octane, mixing it with 10% ethanol and you have 92 octane. So we aren't getting any gains from it, we use more fuel because of less energy stored in the ethanol.
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