Comments on: Ethanol STi Means Big Power and Big Savings http://gas2.org/2009/08/20/ethanol-sti-means-big-power-and-big-savings/ What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:57:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MD http://gas2.org/2009/08/20/ethanol-sti-means-big-power-and-big-savings/#comment-12081 MD Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:11:22 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3283#comment-12081 Jo ! Sad news, I just came back from Vancouver Island BC, I found out that the 8L propane beast threw a rod... No worries though, it is rebuilt and ready to pull houses off their foundations too! My friends are just waiting for a new cab for the F350.. the bodies rot out long before the engines die! Jo !

Sad news, I just came back from Vancouver Island BC, I found out that the 8L propane beast threw a rod…

No worries though, it is rebuilt and ready to pull houses off their foundations too!

My friends are just waiting for a new cab for the F350.. the bodies rot out long before the engines die!

]]> By: MD http://gas2.org/2009/08/20/ethanol-sti-means-big-power-and-big-savings/#comment-35322 MD Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:11:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3283#comment-35322 Jo ! Sad news, I just came back from Vancouver Island BC, I found out that the 8L propane beast threw a rod... No worries though, it is rebuilt and ready to pull houses off their foundations too! My friends are just waiting for a new cab for the F350.. the bodies rot out long before the engines die! Jo !

Sad news, I just came back from Vancouver Island BC, I found out that the 8L propane beast threw a rod…

No worries though, it is rebuilt and ready to pull houses off their foundations too!

My friends are just waiting for a new cab for the F350.. the bodies rot out long before the engines die!

]]> By: Oz http://gas2.org/2009/08/20/ethanol-sti-means-big-power-and-big-savings/#comment-12080 Oz Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:50:40 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3283#comment-12080 Dan M: The concern about corn ethanol raising food prices has most certainly *NOT* been debunked. Read this study from the Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/100xx/doc10057/toc.shtml A quarter of corn production is devoted to ethanol now. The rise in costs may be bearable for us in the west but for the people in the developing world who depend on the North American bread basket it has been a disaster. I do agree that if ethanol has a future it will be cellulosic/algae based. Dan M: The concern about corn ethanol raising food prices has most certainly *NOT* been debunked.

Read this study from the Congressional Budget Office

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/100xx/doc10057/toc.shtml

A quarter of corn production is devoted to ethanol now. The rise in costs may be bearable for us in the west but for the people in the developing world who depend on the North American bread basket it has been a disaster.

I do agree that if ethanol has a future it will be cellulosic/algae based.

]]> By: Oz http://gas2.org/2009/08/20/ethanol-sti-means-big-power-and-big-savings/#comment-35321 Oz Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:50:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3283#comment-35321 Dan M: The concern about corn ethanol raising food prices has most certainly *NOT* been debunked. Read this study from the Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/100xx/doc10057/toc.shtml A quarter of corn production is devoted to ethanol now. The rise in costs may be bearable for us in the west but for the people in the developing world who depend on the North American bread basket it has been a disaster. I do agree that if ethanol has a future it will be cellulosic/algae based. Dan M: The concern about corn ethanol raising food prices has most certainly *NOT* been debunked.

Read this study from the Congressional Budget Office

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/100xx/doc10057/toc.shtml

A quarter of corn production is devoted to ethanol now. The rise in costs may be bearable for us in the west but for the people in the developing world who depend on the North American bread basket it has been a disaster.

I do agree that if ethanol has a future it will be cellulosic/algae based.

]]> By: byron http://gas2.org/2009/08/20/ethanol-sti-means-big-power-and-big-savings/#comment-12079 byron Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:25:03 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3283#comment-12079 """It’s not a new concept, just a new execution and a quick, inexpensive kit: $2995 for the kit shown above. Can’t beat that!""" ----------------------------------------------------------- Actually, this is a new "concept". You two are correct, using ethanol and methanol in high compression race engines increases power..yes we gear heads know that....dadada...but as far as "green things" go, the real value of ethanol or E85 is AS A FUEL ADDITIVE to raise octane, not a replacement for gasoline, like soo many people keep droning on about. SAAB, 3 years ago, was THE FIRST, carmaker to design a high performance mass produced engine designed to get better efficiency using E85. Other "Flex-Fuel" cars today do not get much better performance using E85. “”"It’s not a new concept, just a new execution and a quick, inexpensive kit: $2995 for the kit shown above. Can’t beat that!”"”

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Actually, this is a new “concept”. You two are correct, using ethanol and methanol in high compression race engines increases power..yes we gear heads know that….dadada…but as far as “green things” go, the real value of ethanol or E85 is AS A FUEL ADDITIVE to raise octane, not a replacement for gasoline, like soo many people keep droning on about.

SAAB, 3 years ago, was THE FIRST, carmaker to design a high performance mass produced engine designed to get better efficiency using E85. Other “Flex-Fuel” cars today do not get much better performance using E85.

]]> By: byron http://gas2.org/2009/08/20/ethanol-sti-means-big-power-and-big-savings/#comment-35320 byron Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:25:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3283#comment-35320 """It’s not a new concept, just a new execution and a quick, inexpensive kit: $2995 for the kit shown above. Can’t beat that!""" ----------------------------------------------------------- Actually, this is a new "concept". You two are correct, using ethanol and methanol in high compression race engines increases power..yes we gear heads know that....dadada...but as far as "green things" go, the real value of ethanol or E85 is AS A FUEL ADDITIVE to raise octane, not a replacement for gasoline, like soo many people keep droning on about. SAAB, 3 years ago, was THE FIRST, carmaker to design a high performance mass produced engine designed to get better efficiency using E85. Other "Flex-Fuel" cars today do not get much better performance using E85. “”"It’s not a new concept, just a new execution and a quick, inexpensive kit: $2995 for the kit shown above. Can’t beat that!”"”

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Actually, this is a new “concept”. You two are correct, using ethanol and methanol in high compression race engines increases power..yes we gear heads know that….dadada…but as far as “green things” go, the real value of ethanol or E85 is AS A FUEL ADDITIVE to raise octane, not a replacement for gasoline, like soo many people keep droning on about.

SAAB, 3 years ago, was THE FIRST, carmaker to design a high performance mass produced engine designed to get better efficiency using E85. Other “Flex-Fuel” cars today do not get much better performance using E85.

]]> By: Russ Finley http://gas2.org/2009/08/20/ethanol-sti-means-big-power-and-big-savings/#comment-12078 Russ Finley Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:53:29 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3283#comment-12078 Because this site screens out links with sub folders you can say pretty much anything you want without being called for it because with out links, debate becomes a battle between unsubstantiated remarks. So I put more comments here: http://www.biodiversivist.com Because this site screens out links with sub folders you can say pretty much anything you want without being called for it because with out links, debate becomes a battle between unsubstantiated remarks. So I put more comments here:

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]]> By: Russ Finley http://gas2.org/2009/08/20/ethanol-sti-means-big-power-and-big-savings/#comment-35319 Russ Finley Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:53:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3283#comment-35319 Because this site screens out links with sub folders you can say pretty much anything you want without being called for it because with out links, debate becomes a battle between unsubstantiated remarks. So I put more comments here: http://www.biodiversivist.com Because this site screens out links with sub folders you can say pretty much anything you want without being called for it because with out links, debate becomes a battle between unsubstantiated remarks. So I put more comments here:

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]]> By: Russ Finley http://gas2.org/2009/08/20/ethanol-sti-means-big-power-and-big-savings/#comment-12077 Russ Finley Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:16:28 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3283#comment-12077 Dan's comments about food and corn ethanol are incorrect. The box of Cornflakes argument has been dubunked along with the GMA conspiracy theory. Come to think of it, everything in his comment is wrong. Dan’s comments about food and corn ethanol are incorrect. The box of Cornflakes argument has been dubunked along with the GMA conspiracy theory. Come to think of it, everything in his comment is wrong.

]]> By: Russ Finley http://gas2.org/2009/08/20/ethanol-sti-means-big-power-and-big-savings/#comment-35318 Russ Finley Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:16:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3283#comment-35318 Dan's comments about food and corn ethanol are incorrect. The box of Cornflakes argument has been dubunked along with the GMA conspiracy theory. Come to think of it, everything in his comment is wrong. Dan’s comments about food and corn ethanol are incorrect. The box of Cornflakes argument has been dubunked along with the GMA conspiracy theory. Come to think of it, everything in his comment is wrong.

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