<VV> Re2: Re: Corvair running on E-85 - Y Knot E100?

[Jim Burkhard]

No, that's not true.  When ethanol is sold without a liquor 
tax (for non-drinking purposes), they "denature" it with a 
small amount of methanol which is poisonous.  If that was 
all they were doing, they would use methanol as usual. The 
15% gasoline is chiefly so the cars start in cold weather. 
Without it, it's very tough to get an ethanol car started cold.

Jim Burkhard

Werp Knarly wrote:
> here in a town soon to get an ethonal plant,
> we were told 15% gas is added so no one could drink it.... neither the 
> pro's or the con's seemed to dispute that here