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Premium Fuel for Generator Avoid Ethanol Myth
Unwarranted subsidies notwithstanding, my two concerns about ethanol in gasoline concern water and rubber. Ethanol is hygroscopic, meaning it attracts moisture. Stabil or some other dehydrating agent in something like a standby generator is a must. Ethanol also eats rubber. Older gasoline engines should have the rubber hoses and seals retrofited with Viton equivalents, it's ethanol-resistant. New purchases should be closely researched to determine if the manufacturer used Viton.
Diesel engines are not immune either. Bio-diesel attacks rubber just like ethanol.
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No, they won't have Viton. You're preserving them by "letting the motor run dry at storage". That way, there's no ethanol left to eat away at the natural rubber over winter. With Viton seals and hoses, there's no longer a need to run engines dry at the end of the season. All that stuff that used to clog the jets went by the wayside after ethanol blended fuel was introduced. Don't like ethanol, but at least that's one GOOD thing it contributes.
Personally, I feel LNG/LPG is a far better solution than is ethanol and bio-diesel. The USA and China are the two biggest counties in the world that BURN food on purpose.
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Don't get me started on the Farm Bill, and I'm a retired farmer. About 15 percent of the money in the legislation signed into law Friday will go to farmers to help them grow the food we eat. Most of the other 85% in the almost $100 billion-a-year law will go to food stamps. And of the meager 15% that goes to actual farmers in the form of direct payments, a portion again goes to people who don't even farm anymore.
Of all the subsidies in the bill, it's the ethanol subsidy that galls me most. Given the success other countries have had refining ethanol from switchgrass and sugar cane/beet residuals, there's no excuse for us to still be making it from corn. There's a massive world market for our corn, so ethanol from other vegetation shouldn't lower corn production figures at all. Instead of burning it - export it. Acreage that the Feds are now paying farmers NOT to grow stuff, could be used for switchgrass and sugar cane/beets. Yet this bunch in Washington still wants to burn what could be somebody else's food.
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