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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

You'd need a convertor kit.  Ethenol produces less energy than fossil fuel 
and your engine thinks it is being starved for fuel.  Your engine lights 
will come on to tell you that your engine is running lean.  Also, it is more 
corrosive than fossil fuel and in an older vehicle it will corrode fuel 
lines.

Now, other than that, the more ethenol you add to your fuel, the less MPGs 
you get from your fuel.

Well, unless you are going to use switch grass or some of the other high BTU 
generating stuff to make your own ethenol.  Corn is a really dumb answer to 
the fuel problem.  The only thing it is doing is making the corn growers 
richer and the taxpayer poorer!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>

> I've been reading about ethanol and biofuels.  I was actually more
> familiar with biodiesel than biofuel.  I read that there is E10 and E85
> Ethanol biofuels, 10% and 85% ethanol respectively.  I know that there
> are flexfuel vehicles now that can run on E85 without problems, but what
> about my trucks, regular gasoline pickup trucks, 1995 GMC Sierra, and
> 2000 Chevy Silverado.  I understand that E10 should be safe and cause no
> problems, but I have heard that if one made their own biofuels, you
> could increase the percentage of ethanol to gas, maybe up to 40 or 50%.
> What would happen to my trucks on a 50/50 mix of ethanol and regular
> octane gasoline.  Wouldn't it run better being a higher octane?
> What would be a maximum ethanol percentage for my trucks?
> --
> I am having an out-of-money experience.
> http://erthnsky.blogspot.com/
> EarthNSky Farm, Northwest Georgia, USA
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