Drivers Try E85 - Including Some that Don't Drive Flex-Fuel Vehicles

[Chuck]

Originally Posted by bomber991

...Anyways I think this E85 stuff is kind of dumb, seems like they shouldn't focus on E85 until E10 is already everywhere.

In US metro areas over a million, I'm afraid E10 is your only choice of gas.

I wish Mark E. Smith would chime in...a couple of times he said the E10/MTBE thing was to clean up untuned cars from the 80's era, but today's vehicles won't degrade like that, therefore the justification for E10 to clean up urban smog.

[.iceman]

I guess I'm not so much against ethanol, as I am against corn-based ethanol. As Wayne pointed out, the numbers just don't add up. The reason Brazil is doing so well with their sugar cane, is that the EROI on that crop is about 8 (EIGHT).
Purportedly, the EROI for other crops they're looking into like switch grass, while not as good as sugar cane's, will be much better than corn's... When we switch to them, away from corn, I'm sure a lot of us will feel a lot better about ethanol.

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I eat my corn and burn my oil.
If you make me burn my corn, what am I going to eat?