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TylerE
on Feb 24, 2023
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U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than...
Not true. We went decades without lead or ethanol. You can still get ethanol-free gas if you look hard, and modern engines run quite happily on it.
pengaru
on Feb 24, 2023
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It's not like lead-free and eathanol-free gas is devoid of anti-knock agents... for much of those decades MTBE was used which was part of a groundwater contamination scandal.
Wikipedia has an interesting article on the subject @
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiknock_agent
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