Summary: Mixing Ethanol With Fuel

Mixing ethanol with fuel has drawn a lot of attentions in community. Although some experts has confirmed that there is almost no harm to use ethanol as our fuel in our engines or cars, some people who has experienced with it in real deny that statement. We don't know which is true or false, but this issue should be put into our consideration.

From the article, it seems that the small engines are worn out and easy to get damage when these are used with ethanol. Benjamin Mallisham who own a repair shop in Tuscaloosa states that the lawnmowers he had responsibility for were damaged by ethanol by 40 percents. He also claimed that ethanol melted the engines from out to inside which is the cause of the damage.

The reason why I wrote that we don't know if it is right or wrong to state that ethanol destroys our engines because some experts, especially ones in the Renewable Fuels Association, tested it and concluded that it was fine. However, mechanics also used them and gave a lot of reasonable analysis about the harmful things that ethanol brings to the engines. One of the explorations was stated from Bob Magnotti that ethanol brings moisture which is the reason that reduce the engines life. …show more content…
Not only mechanics, but also a biofuels researcher also doubt about if it is really useful. That is when we haven't consider that putting ethanol in fuel also causes another problem about economics. However, if we change to use the pure gasoline for small engines, we should also use it for big ones which had no complaints from people. The discussion will require a long time to be