Comment Re:Ding! (Score 1) 176
Ethanol is NOT terrible for your car... From many perspectives, its better. All you need is a non-plastic based fuel system and there are no problems. Something to do with design. Running Ethanol on a car not designed for it, not the best.
It *is* only the fuel system that is the problem. Other than that, there is no 'extra wear and tear' on the engine. The tests that are cited as evidence are rather flawed. By the same logic, we should NOT use unleaded petrol due to issues with excessive valve seat wear.
And if you actually *enjoy* driving (I guess I'm in the minority here), ethanol has superior performance characteristics to petrol. Those who chose to disagre have rarely considered the whole picture.
I wish that ethanol - or even e85 - was readily available as a fuel. Sadly, its not.