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Seriously. They were mildly entertaining the first 7500 times but now they rank up there with those nasty dog and cat commercials with Sarah McLachlan baying in the background. I can't hit "previous channel" fast enough.

If you are a good troubleshooter and enjoy working on equipment (not necessarily internal combustion engines) you should consider going to school to become an instrumentation & control technican (or I & E Tech). Places like ITT Tech and most community colleges and/or tech schools have programs. I'm in the power and process industries and can tell you that these...

Sorry to break it to you man, but I've seen it in the back of a pickup outside Family Powersports many times, as if they were actually headed for a track.

Not False. I guess I need to be educated on the 8.7% standard you mentioned. The only federal percentage requirement that I am aware of is the 10% mandate in the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS 2) and compliance with RFS2 is not based on a requirement that refiners show that they actually blend renewable fuels (e.g. test results). It is...

I guess it comes down to who you want to believe: the oil companies and food-for-fuel folks that tell you ethanol will grenade your motor or the ethanol and farm lobby that will tell you that it will create a zillion jobs and set us free from our dependence on foreign oil. My guess is that the truth is somewhere...

Depending on where you buy your pump gas, you've probably run higher than 10% ethanol blend in your car/bike at some point. Smaller refiners/blenders blend on economics and when the wholesale price differential between ethanol and unleaded gets high enough they will splash more ethanol in the mix. Throw on the blenders credit and it's too tempting to pass up...