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    (original)late Banned

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    I agree 10,000%.

    The country did gasahol before, and gave it up because it's a crappy idea.
     
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    It might be a little bit off topic but I agree with you 100% corn liquor is for drinking. And corn is for eating or feeding livestock.

    There's a damn good reason why we've been running internal combustion engines on gasoline all this time because it works the best
     
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    Corn ethanol is nothing but a scam and handout for farmers. Scientists and engineers have always known this. Until recently, and perhaps still true, it took almost a gallon of petroleum to make a gallon of corn ethanol.

    If we took all the land dedicated to growing corn and instead grew fuel-producing algae, we wouldn't need oil at all anymore.

    Funny, when I was in Nebraska, home of the Corn Huskers and a major supplier of ethanol, I saw gas stations proudly advertising that their gas does NOT contain ethanol!
     
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    Hell yeah!!! I just scored 6 gallons of ethanol free, in other words regular gasoline... Today.

    I filled up my 5 gallon can and my one gallon can and it cost $28 and some change.

    There's one station in town that sells it that's about 5 mi away and there are two other ones but they're about 20 mi away. Only problem is half the time when you go to the one in town here they're out.
     
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    I did the math, my 6 gallons of regular gasoline should get my bike almost 1,000 miles.

    A .75.... Or 3/4 of one gallon tank is said to get 100 MI.

    And I believe it too because I can fill the tank all the way to the top.... Go about 5 miles and open the tank and look, it looks as though it has consumed 1 oz of gasoline
     
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    I'm out here doing the midnight Rider thing again..... It's my night off.

    Currently sitting right here drinking beer.

    Pop a top again I say!


    The dog pound is right across the street. I had strongly considered putting on my ninja suit and going to break them all out but I suspect a few of those dogs are really bad dogs you don't want to open the door for so I'll just take a pass on that for tonight. Plus I'm pretty sure that the local county mounties and the dog pound employees would not appreciate my efforts so I don't do that! IMG_20220504_012044.jpg
     

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