E85 is here
Tourer
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 434
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From: Wisconsin
The lower prices is a joke, your taxes are subsidizing the costs offsetting the prices you see at the pumps. The actual cost is much more, but by using your tax dollars, they make it look like a good thing when it really isn't, hoping the users will be hooked into using it giving even more reason to force it down our throats. I used it in a 2003 Suburban I used to have that had a flexfuel motor. I was lucky in that I didn't have any trouble because I only bought at a station right at the refinery where they made the ethonal and blended it in with the gasoline. Ethanol fuel, once made is in a state of deterioration absorbing water which doesn't burn very well, time and undergound tanks do nothing good for the product. I know people that didn't heed my advice and they had problems eventually. My current truck, '07 Chevy with another flexfuel motor will never use e-85 unless they take away all other alternatives. Lower fuel mileage is only one of the smaller issues with this garbage fuel. Food should be used as food for the body, not for fuel in the gas tank.
Cruiser
Joined: May 2010
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There used to be a gas station in Bristol Va. that sold E85. That was a couple of years ago so don't know if it's still in business.
Road Master
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 781
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From: central, ohio
Same here, never was a big push for E85, so not to many stations around here carry it. Funny thing is they built the E refinery here a couple years back, said it would save our economy. Ha, 40 jobs and 25 of them were specialists from out of state. E is a waste of our tax dollars.
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Seasoned HDF Member
Joined: Jul 2009
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From: Virginia
Here is the link to the story
http://www.swvatoday.com/news/articl...t_sheetz/9319/
It says it is 15% gasoline and 85% Ethanol. That can't be right is it?
http://www.swvatoday.com/news/articl...t_sheetz/9319/
It says it is 15% gasoline and 85% Ethanol. That can't be right is it?
Road Warrior
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 1,268
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From: Detroit, the asshole of America
Here is the link to the story
http://www.swvatoday.com/news/articl...t_sheetz/9319/
It says it is 15% gasoline and 85% Ethanol. That can't be right is it?
http://www.swvatoday.com/news/articl...t_sheetz/9319/
It says it is 15% gasoline and 85% Ethanol. That can't be right is it?
Road Master
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 805
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From: The Live Free or Die State
I saw it last night for the first time in Boston and it was $.35 cheaper than regular unleaded. I was stunned.
E85 is all politics and big presidential politics. Presidential candidates are forced to take "the oath" to support this program to subsidise farmers. Ethanol production for fuel is inefficient and as mentioned provides poorer mileage.
I'm looking for someone who can show me that this a worthwhile step along the road to independence from foreign oil. I've seen some more efficient means of producing ethanol are around the corner. I could get behind it in that case...but not for my bike.
E85 is all politics and big presidential politics. Presidential candidates are forced to take "the oath" to support this program to subsidise farmers. Ethanol production for fuel is inefficient and as mentioned provides poorer mileage.
I'm looking for someone who can show me that this a worthwhile step along the road to independence from foreign oil. I've seen some more efficient means of producing ethanol are around the corner. I could get behind it in that case...but not for my bike.
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Joined: Dec 2008
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From: Linden, NC
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