LePage’s executive order on ethanol is fueled by myths, and it’s a win for foreign oil

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Comment by Frank Haggerty on July 19, 2016 at 10:43pm

 

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Comment by Eskutassis on July 19, 2016 at 6:24pm

This is just more of the Green BS we hear every day. Governor LePage is absolutely correct that E15 or more gasoline is bad for the consumer and the environment. 
The most important issue is that it ruins fuel systems and actually corrodes carburetors and fuel injectors. It eats seals and gaskets and is particularly detrimental to small two cycle motors. The ethanol makes them almost unusable after only a year or two. Talk to any outboard motor repairman and have him tell you what it does. I have outboards that are thirty years old and ran fine up till the time we added ethanol to the gas. I now go to the airport and buy aviation grade fuel, as it has no ethanol in it, and use it in all my 2 stroke motors. . . . never a problem or repair. Do you think they would let airplanes operate on unreliable ethanol treated fuel? You bet not.
The second issue is that it takes more energy to make ethanol than it actually produces. Anybody watch "Moonshiners?" That is the way ethanol is made . . . even the kind we use in our cars. You have to boil down a mash of sugar and grain (corn) and distill off the alcohol. Any idea how much energy that takes, and where it comes from? From natural gas and oil for the most part. Is that green?
The third issue is the enormous subsidy given to the producers as well as the farmers growing the corn for this. The corn for this could be going to feed people, cattle, pigs and other livestock thus driving down the cost of food overall and the subsidy money could be saved or used to pay down the ridiculous deficit and debt we have. 
Last but not least, this is just another example of the government picking winners and losers as they have in the wind and solar industry. Let the market work. Winners and losers should be able to sort themselves out by what the consumer wants, not the government.
THANK YOU GOVERNOR LE PAGE!!!

Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on July 19, 2016 at 12:41pm

E100 Gasoline contains 76,100 BTU's of energy  (66%) 

E85 Gasoline contains 81,800 BTU's of energy  (71%)

E10 Gasoline contains 86,705 BTU's of energy (75%)

Conventional Gasoline contains 114,500 BTU's of energy.

Assuming a Car could get 100Mpg on conventional Gasoline, the E10 would provide 75Mpg, E85 71Mpg and E100 66Mpg.

E10 would require 33% -- E85 41% -- E100 51% more gasoline to achieve 100 miles of distance.

90% gasoline content of E10 for 1 gallon, + 90% for another 1/3 gallon = 0.297 =1.297 gallons of gasoline is used plus .136 gallons of ethanol

It seems to me, that to burn 1.297 gallons of E10 vs 1 gallon of Conventional is actually counter productive and creating almost .297 times more CO² plus that produced by the ethanol which only saves a half pound of this pollutant per gallon.

This is one of the reasons Ethanol is not required in Maine any longer. WE are LOOSING with yet another so called GREEN attempt with the truth hidden, and the benefits causing food cost increases.