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Article: Gas Mileage Suffers Due To Ethanol Content Russ Stahleymanheim
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- Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- October 30, 2008
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Is your gas mileage horrible? Mine, too. It must be foreign oil
or big oil companies, right? Wrong!
It's the ethanol in your gas. It burns clean, but it does nothing
for your car or environment. We're being robbed, folks, only they're
not using a gun.
The gas pumps say 10 percent ethanol but operators/suppliers can
add as much ethanol as they like. More ethanol means horrible gas
mileage.
I record my gas mileage every time I get gas. In the last three
months, my miles per gallon have dropped 30 percent. And my vehicle
is well maintained.
The price of gas ...