Almost every station I go to has ethanol (up to 10%) added to gas. For a long time I had the option in my area to buy non ethanol gas but now it’s harder to find.
If a gallon of ethanol gets less mileage per volume than gasoline, then how is it better for the environment if I have to fill that much sooner on gas because the ethanol component lowers my tank range?
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Bio-ethanol is supposed to be carbon-neutral because it’s generated from plants which recover carbon from the atmosphere. So when you burn it you basically return to the air the carbon that you took from it a bit earlier, and therefore overall you don’t change the composition of the atmosphere. Unlike with regular gasoline made from fossil fuels where you release carbon that has been buried for millions of years.
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