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Thoughts on Ethanol Fuel?

I posted this over in my other group "Farming Firefighters" and got some good feedback. Lets see what all the gear heads think.

So let's hear your cheers and jeers on the subject.

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Permalink Reply by John on February 13, 2009 at 10:18am: If your ride is set up for it then its pretty cool as for the normal hot rods I'm not a big fan of it, No expirence with it in fire situations either.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by D.J. McGuire on February 14, 2009 at 5:30pm: In fire situations you need to know what concentration of alcohol is present in the gasoline for proper selection of the proper foam type for application to the incident.

On use in vehicles use what is recomended for the indivual vehicle, E85, E10, straight gasoline,etc; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lt. Caleb French on February 14, 2009 at 7:32pm: Good input guys, but I was getting more into the aspect of "Is it cost efficient to produce?"; ▶ Reply to This

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