I can’t wait until some bored rich dude funds a trad-gas influencer campaign.
“With universal income, most people simply don’t need surplus IQ. But we waste billions on repair of engines suffering with substandard gas”
adrianN 3 hours ago [-]
It’s probably a bit late for that. BEV will have taken the market four new cars before such a campaign could take root.
Spooky23 2 hours ago [-]
We can charge those batteries while we drive, with generators powered by Freedom Fuel.
kazinator 3 hours ago [-]
We should be using leaded solder though! Campaign away ...
tokyobreakfast 3 hours ago [-]
We already have trad-gas.
It's called ethanol-free and people gladly pay a premium for it.
It's far better for your engine, it's what the car manufacturers use to determine the gas mileage, and Californians can only dream of having it.
vlovich123 3 hours ago [-]
Ethanol free fuel in an engine designed for ethanol blend can result in incomplete combustion, leaving deposits in fuel injectors and valves. The car companies don’t care about this for the purposes of determining gas mileage.
Californians I think still remember the smog of the 90s in LA that kicked us to make our air pollution standards the highest in the nation. Going away from that I think sounds more like a nightmare than a dream for most Californians.
tokyobreakfast 2 hours ago [-]
Sorry but this is complete horseshit. Ethanol is corrosive to engine and fuel system components. It is also hygroscopic and will suck water in which is bad news for your fuel system. The less the better. There is a reason modern cars will tolerate up to 15%. With modern DI engines you are getting buildup no matter what and it is completely unrelated to the presence of ethanol in the fuel. Ask any BMW owner and the fuckin' spa treatments they need to take their engines to.
Flex-fuel vehicles run on E85 are required to run a tank of regular gas every few months per the manufacturer. Which is literally the opposite of what you are suggesting.
cortesoft 3 hours ago [-]
As someone who remembers the smog that we used to have here in Southern California, I don't mind leaving the trad-gas in my dreams if I can keep the massively improved air quality in my reality.
tokyobreakfast 2 hours ago [-]
This is a myth. While tailpipe emissions are lower, evaporative emissions are higher. At best it's a draw.
You're seeing less smog because people are driving modern cars with modern emission systems because we live in the future, smog-producing vehicles have been taken out of service, and drawing conclusions based on mere correlation of the two. It has nothing to do with ethanol.
Spooky23 3 hours ago [-]
That’s different. My newish snowblower has to meet California standards to avoid smog in Los Angeles. It’s super sensitive to any gas issues and basically needs a carb cleaning annually.
My previous machine ran for about twenty years with normal ethanol mix.
Putting it in almost any car made this century is just wasting money.
antonymoose 6 hours ago [-]
Dumb Question: Why do you do what you do and or are you a bot? If the latter, why doesn’t HN just automate this?
LOL! I also found that our dear friend ChrisArchitect, sees them (maybe s/he uses a tool), and I just refer to them to see duplicates I might have missed/submitted. I see no harm, and it is a thankless job. We also know that sometimes duplicates are the only way to resurface interesting and curious articles.
gundmc 4 hours ago [-]
In this case it's not a direct duplicate of the link, but another post on the same topic. I find there is value in reading through the previous discussion that I may not have otherwise seen.
tokyobreakfast 4 hours ago [-]
I've seen this account dupe-post twice on a story that was flagged, then later vouched.
Which is a telling bug for a bot to have.
Fezzik 2 hours ago [-]
It’s a common HN practice. I’ve done it once or twice. Mods will do it often, especially with highly active topics. I imagine it started as a method to avoid duplicate posting thereby consolidating conversation and, also, so that karma attribution goes to whoever the original poster was.
I imagine automation would be difficult because the same topics come from different sources and occasionally there is additional/novel information in similarly titled postings.
wincy 15 minutes ago [-]
Also important to note there is a time eventually that something is no longer a dupe, and people will still add previous discussions about it (often dang himself), because the previous conversations about the topic may be of interest. But unless some earth shattering research just came out in the last three days showing that lead is good for us, actually, it hasn’t been long enough for that to apply here.
mulmen 4 hours ago [-]
HN does dedupe on a timer. If it has been a little while reposts are allowed to get a chance of reaching new eyeballs.
“With universal income, most people simply don’t need surplus IQ. But we waste billions on repair of engines suffering with substandard gas”
It's called ethanol-free and people gladly pay a premium for it.
It's far better for your engine, it's what the car manufacturers use to determine the gas mileage, and Californians can only dream of having it.
Californians I think still remember the smog of the 90s in LA that kicked us to make our air pollution standards the highest in the nation. Going away from that I think sounds more like a nightmare than a dream for most Californians.
Flex-fuel vehicles run on E85 are required to run a tank of regular gas every few months per the manufacturer. Which is literally the opposite of what you are suggesting.
You're seeing less smog because people are driving modern cars with modern emission systems because we live in the future, smog-producing vehicles have been taken out of service, and drawing conclusions based on mere correlation of the two. It has nothing to do with ethanol.
My previous machine ran for about twenty years with normal ethanol mix.
Putting it in almost any car made this century is just wasting money.
Which is a telling bug for a bot to have.
I imagine automation would be difficult because the same topics come from different sources and occasionally there is additional/novel information in similarly titled postings.