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ZATHRAS: I think you'd find that "Tylenol" is a brand name of pain killer, as in Panadol. I'm sure you're referring to toluene (paint thinners)!

E. maculata: Yes, some "insanely fast competition vehicles" (drag racers) do use other than gasoline, they use METHANOL, not ethanol. The two are not the same.

[E. maculata]

E. maculata: Yes, some "insanely fast competition vehicles" (drag racers) do use other than gasoline, they use METHANOL, not ethanol. The two are not the same.

Yes at the standing 440 yard racing I agree there's specific classes of cars running methanol (Alchys), but even there I seem to recall there is a small percentage of additives in the mix, elsewhere in motorsport ethanol/methanol mixes of 85/15 are quite common (hillclimbers come to mind) as well, why would you ignore a 113 octane rating fuel that is readily available, but I digress for I'm probably wrong cause the oil companies tell us so.

[anthonyd]

why would you ignore a 113 octane rating fuel that is readily available

Dont let the marketing people fool you - octane is not a fuel rating - it is an element in fuel and has nothing whatsoever to do with ethanol.

Dont know if you can remember back in school when you did organic chemistry?

Remember one group of hydrocarbons is called the Alkanes and each one is determined by the number of carbon atoms. In accending order from one carbon attom upwards you have: Methane,Ethane,Propane,Butane,Pentane,Hexane,Heptane,OCTANE,Nonane,Decane...

Then there are the alchols which just have an extra Oxygen-Hyrodgen atom attached and are named similiarly: Ethanol,Methanol,Proponol....

So ethanol and octane are totally seperate chemicals.

This is of course based on the assumption that when the petrol comapnies talk about octane that they are talking about octane in the true sense of the word. If however it is just a marketing word then ignore my previous statement and regard it as an interesting introduction to inorganic chemistry only!