The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 405
In short, if you were choosing up sides to compete in a national residue-making
competition, you would be better to select gasoline or petroleum oil for your
team. But if you were choosing teammates for a national clean-up competition,
you'd be better off to pick ethanol.
How much more residue does gasoline or a gasoline-oil combination create as
compared to ethanol? Watch these videos to find out:
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Now, imagine that the glass jars shown in the video are the insides of an internal
combustion engine. Imagine, if instead of burning just fuel-soaked wicks for a
few seconds, you were to burn the fuel-sole wicks for an hour or two every day
for a week, a month, a year. Based on the results of the video the residue and
deposits from the gasoline and gasoline-oil fuels would be caked on.
