For years, ethanol has been a percentage of all gasoline sold in Iowa with no bad effects. The ethanol was made a part of gasoline sold in Iowa by a state law to increase the consumption of ethanol in a state that produces a lot of the raw materials necessary to make ethanol — corn. As far as I know, the cars in Iowa are not harmed by this addition of alcohol mandated by state law and the price of gasoline in Iowa is not more expensive than in other states. In fact, the alcohol makes the octane rating of each grade higher than states that sell gasoline with no alcohol in it at all. Why can’t all 50 states mandate at least 10& alcohol in all grades of gasoline?

2 Comments to "Ethanol in use in Iowa."

  • starfire said: On 07/08/2006 at 2:10 am

    Yes. Ethanol does raise the octane value of gasoline.
    Here in Minnesota the Gasoline has an actual octane of 84 and then add 10% Ethanol and you get an 87 octane.

    87 plus 10% get 89

    however it does drop your HP and the lower the actual octane the more of heavy fuels are in your gasoline.

    Ethanol is a nice resource but there are drawbacks.

  • e85fuel said: On 07/08/2006 at 2:35 am

    Plus the biomass is a feed product for livestock

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