To: 2ndDivisionVet
Note gas mileage with any flex fuel vehicle using E-85 (85% ethanol gasoline blend) will be abysmal. Compared to gasoline, ethanol has about 40% less energy resulting in greatly reduced gas mileage. A few years ago the Bureau of Administration in South Dakota heavily invested in a flex fuel fleet of state vehicles. Though the heavily subsidized E-85 was 23 cents per gallon cheaper than the standard 10-percent ethanol blend, tests showed the
23-percent decrease in gas mileage with E-85 negated the cost savings. The net result was a 1.49 cent cost-per-mile operating increase in the E85 vehicles.
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To: The Great RJ
Note also that the list of vehicles with “low greenhouse gas” ratings are mostly *not* flex-fuel. That’s tacit admission by the EPA that higher levels of ethanol in gasoline blends are not beneficial.
18 posted on
01/19/2014 8:40:26 AM PST by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: The Great RJ
The whole notion of “mileage” is ridiculous as soon as we begin talking about non-gasoline fuels. “Mileage” only makes sense if we use gasoline as the standard fuel. The only metrics that make sense are cents per mile or perhaps cents per passenger-mile or freight-mile.
I just have to laugh when the ads say electric vehicles get “over 100 mpg.” My big Expedition could get 1,000 mpg using these silly standards if I installed some massive batteries and auxiliary motors.
To: The Great RJ
E85 is a great low buck racing fuel (assuming you have the compression and tuning to take advantage of the high octane) but as you say for the on road consumer it’s a loser.
38 posted on
01/19/2014 9:45:01 AM PST by
nascarnation
(I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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