With cars becoming more complex
Would a new car designed to be run only on ethanol (E85 or E70 blends) equipped with a carburetor
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Posted that in case younger members don't know what a carburetor is.
Suppose the car has a electronic jets in its carburetor, an oxygen sensor, secondary air injection (smog pump)
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and catalytic converters if necessary
Would that pass new car emission controls as ethanol is much more clean burning?
Are there laws allowing less stringent emission tests for Ethanol-only new cars?
New cars are said to consume more oil to build than the fuel they will burn in their lifetime.
So to be truly green a new car not only needs to burn little fuel, it also must be long-lasting, easy and cheap to repair.
If so, then it looks like the 70s oil crisis was "solved" wrong
Instead of warmongering the middle East to TRY to get cheap oil then the solution was to continue with landyachts but convert them to ethanol and reforest American deserts.