Exactly. Gotta keep all those multinational industrial farm corporations happy

 

Going from %5 ethanol to 10% will not decrease mpg by that much. Since you have no engine code, no alignment issue or tire issue. Have you try doing a compression test, to see if your engine is still running strong?

 

Not just them, but also the medium to large family farms too. Just try to run against the subsidy at any governmental level in the corn belt and see haw few votes you get. Next scheduled step, 15% before 2022 at the discretion of the EPA.

 

Ethanol is also there to help us consume more renewable resource fuels, as well as, wean us off resources purchased from unstable middle eastern nations.

 

Would you be surprised to hear that the US produces most of its own oil? Then we import from Latin America and Canada more than the middle east

 

And corn on the cob will become a luxury food for the rich. It's been fifty cents an ear locally for years, so I never buy it.

 

Renewable, like aquifers?

 

But Obama and the EPA won't let the petro industry drill where the government has control, therefore slant drilling and oil shale. Too much political/science fiction spread about the alternatives, both sides. Is Manhattan under water yet?

 

We should grow the corn in Manhattan, where the water is! Or maybe Houston, they've got more than they need right now.

But shortsighted is shortsighted, and we've got to reduce pumping finite resources out of wells to burn in our tanks. Water, oil, whichever.

 

Unless it was a late April Fool's joke, I got a notice from Honda that there is going to be a new run of the Clarity, a hydrogen powered car. Jamie Lee Curtis had an original one on lease for testing purposes. The emissions are H2O and, damn, that's it H2O/ No carbon tainted emissions. I'll try to dig out the email.

I try to keep my promises.

http://links.honda.mkt015.com/ctt?kn...EyS0&mt=1&rt=0

 

Water for exhaust... Drive them around the cornfields, or get California to pay you to do laps around their reservoirs.

 

Just did 44.136 MPG on my last fill without trying. This was calculated while the information screen was saying I got 46 MPG

 

Is the fuel range worth trusting? Mine turn on the light when I'm in the 20's Km, I usually rush to my gas station when this happens, but what if it reaches 0?

 

That sounds about right. With my refills, the info display is usually about 1.5 - 2.0 mpg above what my manual calculation comes to. Been like that since day one.

 

+1, our 2016 LX CVT is exactly the same.

 

If it reaches zero, a blackhole will open and destroy the earth. No, not really. I've had it zero and the car kept going, but I had already pre-calculated that I had still gas in the tank.

 

It's a safe estimate. I've driven 10 - 20 miles with Zero Miles showing.

 

I've been routinely driving about 50 miles past the "0" mile range and have gone as far as 70 miles past "0".

 

Good to know. But can't frequent low gas levels overheat the fuel pump - or is that just another urban legend?

 

I've been talking to hypermilers for years, never heard of it as anything more than a hypothetical. Fuel pumps, starters, ignition switches, none of them seem to go more quickly for them than regular folk.