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There's a well known, successful company that produces a sidecar cpu that plugs between a stock engine computer (our Bosch ECU in the right front footwell), and the wiring harness. It enables the car to run any combination from 0%gasoline/100%ethanol to 0%ethanol/100%gasoline. There are other suggested modifications beyond just plugging this computer in-line with your computer...like fuel line protection including the filler-neck, and others.
But for $500ish - you can run E85, E95 or E100. They are well known and successful in many countries - just not the U.S.
Look up Flex Tek.
My understandin is the device was developed in Brazil, where they import no foreign oil and ethanol is the driving force behind their transportation fuels.
Little glitch here though. The EPA says it's illegal to install. Hmmm. Wonder why? There's a no-tampering law on the engine management and emissions systems in the U.S. Hmmm. Wonder why FlexTek can't get an instant "pass" on that law and make their system widely available here. Hmmm.
Bottom line, there are two sides to this issue. One - big oil is probably too powerful for a conversion in primary fuels to be easy.
And two, even if big oil were to lay down and let ethanol take over, we can't grow enough corn or sugar cane, nor convert economically enough, to replace oil with ethanol to fuel this country...yet.
But why oh why, for anyone that wants to spend $500 (will pay for itself in 500 gallons of gas at a price difference of $2.25 ethanol, $3.25 gasoline) and convert their car...why oh why would that be considered illegal???? Hmmm.
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