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Old March 5th, 2008, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by TurboDave View Post
Fortunately, there is a company (can't remember their name) partnered with GM, that is perfecting a process to produce e85 at little more than a dollar a gallon, AND use only 1 gallon of water for each gallon of e85!!
They are able to produce it from many cellulosic, AND waste materials. Even including plastics and old tires!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the kind of break through that is needed, but they said full production (whatever that means) is still a few years away (2010-2011).
FYI - the company is called Cokata - and yes, that would be awesome if they could make it work.
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