Is Nascar going to buy into the hype and switch to ethanol? If and when it does it would surely affect local racers. For a link to the story go here.
As someone who has experience with what ethanol does to cars not designed for it, I hope not. In this region of the country cars often sit for six months at a time and ethanol and steel tanks don't mix. I personally have had to replace gas tanks on three of my vehicles. The only thing that changed was the gas. Ethanol is not as efficient as gasoline, robs power from the motor, and lowers miles per gallon over regular gas. There is also more of a condensation problem with ethanol, hence the problem with the steel tanks. I for one cannot see putting a plastic gas tank in my 66 year old car. Corn shouldn't be the first choice for ethanol as sugar cane would produce a better end product. When the lead was taken out of gas the substistute was a bigger polluter than the lead. They have since fixed that, but if you want to replace gas, give us an alternitive that is at least as efficient.
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Cars will run on the ethanol that's sold around here. I run ethanol in my 1948 Chevy, and it runs. It just can sometime cause other problems. According to the Ethanol Board you lose 3% of your gas mileage over regular gas and about the same power loss. From actual experience I've noticed a bigger reduction in Mpg in my truck. Could be the racing parts installed, not sure.
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