E85... I want the fact's.
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Most premium is e10 as well. The 10 percent ethanol has been added pretty much across the country as a replacement for MTBE which has poisoned the water tables in many areas due to leaks and spills.
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Do you have your own fleet that you keep tabs on the maintenance history?
So instead of presenting some counter evidence, you divert by saying you're right, have experience, and others don't? Logical fallacy.
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This thread is about E85, not E10. 
Non-sequitur. Auto manufacturers have made their systems E10 compatible since the 1980s
There are entire forums out there dedicated to people discussing E85 in their vehicles. There are posts here on this site some people noting success (we'll see what happens at 150,000+ miles). There are also many posts on the Internet from people with problems. People are talking about success and problems with E85. Not everyone is lucky, some are.
Something that seems to be severely lacking from this thread.
"You can't post a link to experience." 
You have to understand that it comes off as 'conspiracy theory' type stuff when you make it out to sound like everyone that is running E10 is being screwed by the Government, no?
Why does my 11 year old Z28 seem to run PERFECTLY fine with the stuff? Wheres my mileage loss? Where are my corroded parts? Failed injectors? Dead fuel pump?
FWIW, I have over 170K miles on said Z28, still on the stock fuel pump (even after 1000s of gallons of E10 and 100s of bottles of N20 use), guess I am the lucky one?
FWIW, I have over 170K miles on said Z28, still on the stock fuel pump (even after 1000s of gallons of E10 and 100s of bottles of N20 use), guess I am the lucky one?
I think most people realize this, but it bears repeating, you only hear about problems on the internet, nobody comes to the internet to say, 'hey, my car has been running fine for years on E85, even though it was never meant to be used in it', the only people you hear from are the guys who's neighbors, sisters, cousin ran E85 in his work truck and it took a crap after a week....lol.
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I remember all those popular flex fuel tuners they developed, oh wait, that was us!
OK, so...I did not read the whole article you linked me to, but are you saying the failures described in that article were caused from the use of E85 or E10?
If you can't see how the lines are being blurred here, I dont know what to tell ya.
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After reading some more of the article, it makes no claim as to what fuels are causing what problems, very vague.
To me, this statement leads to say that E10 is being blamed, and this is from the article that YOU linked....
City Garage manager Eric Greathouse has found that adding ethanol to the nation's gasoline supply may be a foolish government mandate, but it has an upside he'd rather not deal with. It's supplying his shop with a slow but steady stream of customers whose plastic fuel intakes have been dissolved by the blending of ethanol into our gasoline, or their fuel pumps destroyed. The average cost of repairs is just shy of $1,000.
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OK, so...I did not read the whole article you linked me to, but are you saying the failures described in that article were caused from the use of E85 or E10?
If you can't see how the lines are being blurred here, I dont know what to tell ya.
If you can't see how the lines are being blurred here, I dont know what to tell ya.
