callmeebryan
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- Jun 24, 2007
Making this short and brief as i would like to start a nice debate about this.
Pros:
Higher octane which allows for more timing, more boost.
About $0.30 cheaper/gallon than gasoline.
Releives our dependency on foriegn oil supplies.
Cons:
You must use about 180% the amount as you would with gasoline (LESS MPG)
E85 emits the same amount of CO2 as gasoline.
Not very many pumps that sell this stuff nationwide.
I was reading an article on an experiment done by a bunch of college students. They took a FlexFuel Chevy Tahoe on a 333mile one way, completing a round trip of 666miles; one run on gasoline, the other on E85. Their trip on Gasoline averaged about 18.3mpg, and on E85 they averaged about 13.5mpg.
Lets put this into perspective.
The average price of gasoline they paid was $3.42/gal. They used about 36.5 gallons of gasoline on the trip, $124.66 worth of fuel.
The average price of E85 that they paid was $3.09/gal. They used about 50 gallons of E85 on the trip, $154.29 worth of fuel.
A motorist, filling up and comparing the prices of regular gas and E85, might see the price advantage of E85 (in their case,9.7 percent less) as a bargain. However, since fuel economy is significantly reduced, the net effect is that a person choosing to run their flex-fuel vehicle on E85 on a trip like theirs will spend 22.8% more to drive the same distance. For them, the E85 trip was about $30 more expensive — about 22.9 cents per mile on E85 versus 18.7 cents per mile with gasoline.
E85 is NOT the answer to this country's fuel problems!!!!!!!!
They saw a man at a gas station filling up his E85 Flex Fuel truck.... they decided to ask him some questions.....
Im shake my head every time i read that interview... its rediculous the way people are so inaccurate in their thinking!
So my question to you guys is why are you using E85? Are you only using it on your Buicks for performance reasons or are you using it on other regular daily driver cars as well? I can see, from a performance view, that its a cheap performance fuel that you can buy at a gas station. But the average joe doesnt care about that.
I would like to hear your guys input about this.
Pros:
Higher octane which allows for more timing, more boost.
About $0.30 cheaper/gallon than gasoline.
Releives our dependency on foriegn oil supplies.
Cons:
You must use about 180% the amount as you would with gasoline (LESS MPG)
E85 emits the same amount of CO2 as gasoline.
Not very many pumps that sell this stuff nationwide.
I was reading an article on an experiment done by a bunch of college students. They took a FlexFuel Chevy Tahoe on a 333mile one way, completing a round trip of 666miles; one run on gasoline, the other on E85. Their trip on Gasoline averaged about 18.3mpg, and on E85 they averaged about 13.5mpg.
Lets put this into perspective.
The average price of gasoline they paid was $3.42/gal. They used about 36.5 gallons of gasoline on the trip, $124.66 worth of fuel.
The average price of E85 that they paid was $3.09/gal. They used about 50 gallons of E85 on the trip, $154.29 worth of fuel.
A motorist, filling up and comparing the prices of regular gas and E85, might see the price advantage of E85 (in their case,9.7 percent less) as a bargain. However, since fuel economy is significantly reduced, the net effect is that a person choosing to run their flex-fuel vehicle on E85 on a trip like theirs will spend 22.8% more to drive the same distance. For them, the E85 trip was about $30 more expensive — about 22.9 cents per mile on E85 versus 18.7 cents per mile with gasoline.
E85 is NOT the answer to this country's fuel problems!!!!!!!!
They saw a man at a gas station filling up his E85 Flex Fuel truck.... they decided to ask him some questions.....
"Edmunds.com: How do you like running on E85?
Avalanche Owner: The mileage sucks. On gas I can get 18 (miles per gallon). On E85 I get like 12.
Did you buy this truck so you could run on E85?
Yup.
But you get worse gas mileage. So why do you do it?
To help the environment."
Im shake my head every time i read that interview... its rediculous the way people are so inaccurate in their thinking!
So my question to you guys is why are you using E85? Are you only using it on your Buicks for performance reasons or are you using it on other regular daily driver cars as well? I can see, from a performance view, that its a cheap performance fuel that you can buy at a gas station. But the average joe doesnt care about that.
I would like to hear your guys input about this.