X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from imf21aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.69] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTP id 1022221 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:34:01 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.152.59.69; envelope-from=ceengland@bellsouth.net Received: from ibm63aec.bellsouth.net ([209.215.60.86]) by imf21aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20060304003316.HDTE4163.imf21aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm63aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 19:33:16 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (really [209.215.60.86]) by ibm63aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20060304003315.ZWJR1883.ibm63aec.bellsouth.net@[127.0.0.1]> for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 19:33:15 -0500 Message-ID: <4408E046.4070907@bellsouth.net> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:33:10 -0600 From: Charlie England User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Ethanol is out References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Al Gietzen wrote: >This has a definite "BOGUS" ring to it. There is no requirement for ethanol >to be added to gas in California (at least not yet); and I don't think >ethanol is categorized as an 'additive'. > > > >Some further checking is in order. > > > >Al > There has been an EPA requirement to add oxygenates to gas in densely populated areas. MTBE was the 1st choice until someone pointed out that it was 'worse than the cure'. Ethanol was the replacement of choice, so it does have some ring of truth.