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To: US Navy Vet

I wonder what kind of mileage I’d get if I wasn’t using ethanol. Wonder how much the ethanol part of the gallon is really costing me.


15 posted on 06/03/2010 8:17:44 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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I wonder what kind of mileage I’d get if I wasn’t using ethanol. Wonder how much the ethanol part of the gallon is really costing me.

Ethanol has about 2/3 the energy per unit volume that gasoline has, so 10% ethanol will drop your mileage by about 3%.

18 posted on 06/03/2010 8:25:48 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I am so immune to satire that I ate three Irish children after reading Swift's "A Modest Proposal")
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