E-85 gas

[Guest scarylarry]

There has been E-85 pumps installed where I buy gas sometimes, which is no biggie to me cause I don't use it.

I thought the E-85 was going to be cheaper than regular gas and it was 20 cents higher I asked the cashier and that was joke, so did I miss something or was E-85 suppose to be higher?

[6pak]

20 cents a gallon cheaper here in Hinesville.

[Guest scarylarry]

I thought that was the way it was set up, not 20 cents higher..Yes I looked twice and even looked at the pump to make sure..

[DBOB]

There has been E-85 pumps installed where I buy gas sometimes, which is no biggie to me cause I don't use it.

 

I thought the E-85 was going to be cheaper than regular gas and it was 20 cents higher I asked the cashier and that was joke, so did I miss something or was E-85 suppose to be higher?

Hey Larry,

Where do you buy gas? Just wondering.

Don

[davecb]

Larry has dyslexia and was reading the price backwards :stirthepot:

[ahoutzer]

We keep hearing that it takes more than a gallon of oil to bring a gallon of ethanol to the fuel pumps. If that is true then it should be no surprise that E85 is more expensive than E10 unless some subsidy artificially lowers the price of E85, which wouod mean that we just pay for it some other way or toss it onto the debt heap.

[MiCarl]

We keep hearing that it takes more than a gallon of oil to bring a gallon of ethanol to the fuel pumps. If that is true then it should be no surprise that E85 is more expensive than E10 unless some subsidy artificially lowers the price of E85, which wouod mean that we just pay for it some other way or toss it onto the debt heap.

 

To top it all off, this week even Green Al Gore (Nobel Laureate) admitted that ethanol doesn't make environmental sense either.

[Freebird]

No only did he admit that it makes no sense, he went so far as to say that it NEVER made sense. He said that he only pushed it because he needed the farmers votes.

 

Now I'll probably end up having to delete my own post and others when this turns political....

 

dang....I hate it when I have to censor me.....

[ahoutzer]

Before you delete all of this, do you have a link to Al Gore's statement? Sounds interesting.

[Freebird]

Here is an article about it. Maybe we can still talk about Ethanol without turning it into a political debate. We'll see.

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2010%2F11%2F29%2FED8F1GIVH6.DTL

[Monty]

Larry has dyslexia and was reading the price backwards :stirthepot:

 

 

 

I believe you mean dyscalcula, since it involves numbers.

[6pak]

While we're talkin about ethanol, has anyone had any positive results from it? I used it in my '02 S-10 with a 2.2 litre engine. The little truck usually gets about 22 mpg in the city. When I tried the E85, my mileage dropped to 19 mpg city, and the truck was even slower that normal. Not enough motor for the truck by the way.

So I no longer use E85 altho the motor is approved for it. 3 mpg loss for 20c? I don't think so.

[Flyinfool]

Your experience with reduced gas mileage is normal.

Ethanol contains roughly half the energy per volume as gasoline.

Gasoline burns at at 14 : 1 fuel air mix and ethanol burns at a 7 : 1 fuel air mix.

Therefore the higher the ethanol content, the more you have to burn to get the same horsepower to the drive wheels.

Actually I am surprised that you lost ONLY 3 MPG.

[Guest scarylarry]

Hey Larry,

Where do you buy gas? Just wondering.

Don

 

Thorton's I talked to the manager while back and he said this area was a test for it, different areas do different test..

[Guest scarylarry]

Larry has dyslexia and was reading the price backwards :stirthepot:

 

No, Pam nor I have dyscalcula we know what we read..

[Guest scarylarry]

Here is an article about it. Maybe we can still talk about Ethanol without turning it into a political debate. We'll see.

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2010%2F11%2F29%2FED8F1GIVH6.DTL

Hey Don didn't mean to turn this is a political debate just wonder why it was higher was all deleted if you wish..Thanks