Ethanol deserves to be criticized
Ethanol does increase food prices. Land previously used to grow sweet corn is now used to grow field corn due to the profitability of ethanol. That is only one bad fact of ethanol.
I have owned an automotive company for 32 years and have never seen any one thing more devastating to a fuel system than ethanol. The molecular makeup of ethanol is different than gas.
Ethanol attracts moisture, becomes heavier than the gas, then separates and settles to the bottom of tank. In that form, it becomes a corrosive agent and damages the in-tank fuel pump and fuel-sending units. In devices that are not used daily to keep it “shaken up” such as lawn mowers, weed eaters, boats and classic cars, it forms a brown, slimy substance that clogs and ruins the carburetors. Next month, when the ethanol content goes to 15 percent, the problem will get significantly worse.
JOE KIRKPATRICK