Good decision. We have to use 15% ethanol stuff in southeastern WI and find it lowers our mileage from 24 mpg to 20 mpg, plus it costs more as it's a special blend to the refiners. Vehicles made for the past 10 years have computers and cat converters that already do the cleanup job.
Not to mention the fact the ethanol dramatically reduces the shelf life of gasoline, which obviously drives up prices.
Oh, Man! I can't WAIT to hear what the corn growers 'round here have to say, LOL!
This is going to be fun. ;)
The price of E85 - a fuel that's 85% ethanol made from grain and 15% conventional gasoline - is higher than that of gasoline, even though E85 has only 72% as much energy. The U.S. Department of Energy says a vehicle has to use 1.4 times as much E85 as gasoline to go the same distance.
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