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Default An interesting little gas factoid...

I'll tell you what - if the price of my Corn Flakes goes up because of
ethanol, there is going to be war.

LOL! The price of cornflakes is already about 500% more than what it costs
to produce. One of the biggest moneymakers of any company. I buy 'em too.
;-(

--Mike

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 May 2007 19:00:14 -0400, trainfan1
wrote:

bowgus wrote:
On May 20, 6:39 am, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
I was just down getting coffee for the wife and guests from the local
coffee shop and there was a driver there from a local gas delivery
company. We got to chatting while I was waiting for the coffee and
pastry order and found this out.


And here's another interesting factoid. A vehicle burning E85 gets 2/3
the mileage of the same vehicle burning gas. Go here and look up e.g.
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee (there are others, same story) which shows
both ... http://www.fueleconomy.gov/ Now that's not something you see
on those E85 billboards ...


E85 will have to be 70% or less of the going price of gas at the pump to
get anyone interested in buying it en masse.


I'll tell you what - if the price of my Corn Flakes goes up because of
ethanol, there is going to be war.

And it ain't gonna be pretty. :)