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I support the development of flex-fuel vehicles, but I can see the way Detroit will market the gas-guzzler size:

Ad: H3 gets 15/20mpg - 17 combined

E85 version available!

Does not post the E85 fuel economy: probably something like 12/16mpg - 13 combined


Buyer gets flex-fuel H3, sees the results and just goes back to regular gas.

The only ways I can think of getting most flex-fuel drivers to use E85 is

it's the only thing available.
E85 is priced below regular gas enough to break-even.

Yup.

I figure as long as people buy them and put them on the streets at least we are paving the way to get more E85 stations built. The pace of them adding 85 pumps to stations will probably be the same as the amount of vehicles that can buy e85.