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Margo Schabel 3 months, 2 weeks ago.
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Ok.. we are looking into getting a pickup and a question has come up on towing ability difference between regular gas and E-85 ethnol. Does anyone have any experience to help in this?
Try this and draw your own conclusions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E85
Thanks guys. I don’t really use Wikipedia for info. It can be changed by anyone. Sorry.
My opinion is that the article is accurate, and presents both sides of the argument. As a 60 year old heavy duty mechanic with considerable experience with diesel, gasoline, natural gas, and propane engines, my first recommendation would be to consult your owners manual as to what fuels are suitable for your vehicle.
Towing is the most strenuous thing you can do to a vehicle, my personal opinion is that you get what you pay for, and wouldn’t use the cheaper fuel. Whatever you do, don’t listen to sales people, they are there to move product and fill their pockets.
I would buy a unit that is flex fuel capable, because you never know what some silly politician is going to push through without consulting industry. Remember when unleaded fuel came out and destroyed the exhaust valves in the older engines? In Canada, they wanted to go to 15% ethanol content, even though they were told it would cause innumerable vehicle fires on older vehicles. Fortunately, the realization that they would be legally liable put a stop to that.Thanks for the info. We are going over to talk to our guy on Monday. We still have a year and a half on the lease so I don’t even know if its possible yet. Just looking for info. Since you know more on the subject, I will look into it more. Your right about the politicians. Just never know.
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