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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. :) |
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