Keith wrote:
> Hi Hoagy, how've you been?
>
> Bit more below on this one:
>
> >Japan: Country Eyes Bioenergy-fueled Plants, Cars in 2010
> > Dec 19, 2002
> > http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=4&id=243380
> http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20021220a7.htm
> The Japan Times Online
> Biomass recycling program planned for launch in 2010
Thanks Keith, MUCH appreciated. I've been reading bits & pieces
about the ethanol Australian connection. Reminds me of the
USA ethanol, then called gasohol or some such, controversy.
The only serious problem I recall when using a 10% ethanol/90% gasoline
fuel blend was back in the mid 1980's when a large USA retail fuel
distributor with hundreds of fuel service stations had tainted
gasohol blends. They still have this tainted problem with
gasoline only fuels, too. Not quite sure why they persist.
I'll leave that to the speculators while I've moved on to
more reliable sources.
Although there was a transitional period in the 1980s when
engines and fuel system parts such as gasket, seal, plastic,
rubber and some metallic parts may have needed to be upgraded
similar to biodiesel. My pre 1980's vehicles required a
carburetor metallic float replacement at one time
including my 1980 Honda Civic which spent half its life
in Minnesota USA at times consuming gasohol. This car
managed to accumulate about 230,000 miles (370,000 km)
before the winter salted roads severally damaged the under body
after 14 years of service and the engine only used
about one quart of 10W-30 weight oil every 1800 miles
which isn't bad considering a new car of this vintage
after the initial break-in period requires about 1 quart
every 2000 miles which still holds true today with my
1997 Geo Metro or as I call it my GeMe.
Who wrote something about cleaning or changing fuel filters
which should be listed in his or her vehicles owner or service
manual according to time or distance traveled. This is not
fuel specific to my knowledge but periodic preventative maintenance
which seems understandable to me when considering the dust, dirt and
metallic piping & containment transference's fuels go through
within their lifetime. Supposedly my GeMe and 88 Chevy Sprint
are notorious for requiring fuel filter changes, or so I've heard,
and yet I've not done so after an averaged fifty thousand miles
each even though this past year ten percent ethanol blended gasoline
is now locally available, thank goodness.
Best wishes,
Hoagy
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