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Both forms of synthetic alcohol, ie ethanol and methanol, are used in race engines and have been for many years. Ethanol has an octane rating of 116, Methanol 113, and standard pump gas has a rating of 85. So it comes down to bang potential. Octane is a scale that compares bang potential.

The alcohol based fuels allow for more aggressive ignition timing settings so that where economy is unimportant the bang per buck factor is substantially increased. I agree that you probably won’t save anything because these synthetic fuels are thinner than swamp gas; thinner as in paint thinner if you will. So it is true that more fuel is required to move X weight Y distance but we have always known this.

The claim that synthetic fuel causes engine wear is erroneous: the single biggest difference to engine wear especially upper cylinder wear was brought about by the exclusion of lead in fuel. Removing lead was a good thing and the slight increase in valve seat degradation is overcome by using harder compounds in said valve seat, something car manufactures have been doing for a decade or two now. Car manufacturers concerns are about their use of cheap fuel hoses only and the chance that we would sue if our cars caught fire.

There is only one difficulty with synthetic fuels: once a small timing adjustment has been made to alleviate pinkering of course. This problem has to do with the rubber hoses in the fuel line. It is true that synthetic fuels do attack rubber more drastically than swamp gas does; this is overcome by simply replacing rubber components with more resistant types of hose. Of course nobody wants their car to burst into flames and if one can’t afford to have their rubber hoses checked and or changed then this should be a factor in any decision to switch fuel.

We run a 10% ethanol blend here in New Zealand and my experience is offered for consideration. My car is 25 years old and has given me no problems in the decade that i have been using the synthetic blends. My motorcycle is 40 years old and has CV carburettors (with rubber diaphragms which i changed to the nitrile type) again no problems.

The claim about using food crops for fuel has some merit but is really only problematic because we don’t use sustainable practices regarding cropping methodology. It’s not the corns, or the fuel industries, fault that we are little better than locusts at managing the gift we have been given. Further more we could equally effectively be using all the rubbish that we usually dump into land fills to source this fuel. Methane gas, a precursor of methanol, is a known by product of rotting garbage and in fact is quite a problem for sealed landfill sites.

In conclusion i certainly advise, and always will, that nobody take my advice on this but it is well worth talking to your mechanic about as any reduction in our reliance of fossil fuels is a good thing. I suggest that the source of this scare mongering is funded by the oil cartel who have probably also added me to their hit list now.

Nazi EPA!