gasahol

Was he really suggesting that the Obama Administration is revisiting support for an industry that has been subsidized by both parties since the 1970s, when it was known as gasahol, and whose government crutches now include a mandate to buy its product and protection from foreign competitors?

Vilsack's Candor 2011

This is especially true if the octane of the gasahol is increased (typically from 87 to 89).

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Your mileage with gasahol will decline even more if you accelerate often (as in typical rush hour traffic when speeds change frequently) or if you drive up and down hills.

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My car gets 27 mpg with 87 octane gasoline but only 25.5 mpg with 89 octane gasahol, a 5.6% decline.

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When your fuel is swithced to gasahol (90% gasoline and 10% ethanol), your gas mileage falls.

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Mr. Gore, freshman House class of 1976, was an early proponent of what was then called gasahol.

Al Gore 2010

In case you didn’t know this, the 90% gas/10% ethanol blend reduces gas mileage by about 3%, and that’s if you have a fuel injection system programmed to deal with gasahol.

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Solar panels in California, windmills on the Atlantic coast, gasahol from Iowa, greenhouses in New England, and solar electric plants could provide 20-30 percent of our energy needs by 2000 ” given a serious national commitment equivalent to the space program.

The New American Dream Hayden, Tom 1981