ORIGINAL: Truckracer
.... and if you do this whole crazy thing, how do you dispose of the alcohol laden water? I can't think of any good way to get rid of the stuff. You have just created hazardous waste material. This whole scheme is just crazy when 10% ethanol really doesn't cause any problems. For every one person that claims to have problems, there must be dozens that use the stuff without problems. Heck, if ethanol producers keep going out of business at the current rate, there won't be enough left to produce the stuff. Oh, I forgot, they can stand in line for a bailout or we can import the stuff.
Woa!! Hazardous waste? How is this (ethanol, water, and some traces of gas left over from decanting) any less hazardous than the products which would be created by burning by the gas itself? If one considers the volumes involved, I think that's a pretty weak argument you've started there. What do most people do with the solvents involved when cleaning the tools used in applying any oil based finish? Whatever the responsible answer is in THAT case will also be the answer for this one, I assume. Collect it and recycle, or bring it to the proper places for disposal. (ie don't dump it down the drain...) In any case, I don't want to go there right now.
I'm just interested in the process. Can we please get back to the method involved and quit picking on Gus, MAN or whatever pet peeves people have with the E10 debate at the moment. [:@]