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Old Sep 10, 2008 | 07:21 PM
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Default Re: The Dreaded E10 gasoline

Originally Posted by Byoung7
Here is a questions - With this wonderful E10 gas that we get less mileage from, has anyone looked at the emmisions it takes to produce the fuel? We are all going to be using more due to the lower mileage which means they need to produce more! Yes the cars burning E10 are emitting lower emmisions, but does this out weigh the emmisions it took to make the fuel? Just my two cents! Not that I have much left after buying fuel!
That's the big hypocrisy about blended fuels being "cleaner". You have to burn more of it, so any possible emissions savings are null IMHO.
 
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