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RedDevil · 09-14-2013, 05:26 PM

One thought.

You cannot mix pure gasoline with water. The water would just sink to the bottom of the tank, waiting for a chance to enter the fuel line and kill the engine.

You can however mix E10 with water. It has beneficial effects to the engine, if Wikipedia is to be believed (see post above). It also has beneficial effects to the wallet of the owners of petrol stations. They might even mix more water in than would really be useful for the engine. If that happens, your fuel economy will certainly suffer.

That could explain some of the bad effects on FE and engine behaviour of E10 reported in this thread. After all, it is easy to do, and who really does a total chemical analysis of the gas they tank?

Looking for news sites on hydrated ethanol blends, it seems that it was buzzing at the end of June 2013. The findings must have been published just before that. So that may explain why this item is fresh on Wikipedia.
(reference to the product site of Blue One deleted - it did change recently)

09-14-2013, 05:26 PM	#140 (permalink)
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