Comments on: Big Oil Not a Big Fan of E85 Ethanol?

By: Lucky1

Lucky1 — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:30:06 +0000

Roughly trades at half the price of gas. About five million american cars have the capacity to burn e85 and people aren’t made aware of it. Every single gas station in brazil provides access to e85 fuel and the normal gas is even made up of 25% ethanol. Sounds like its enough energy content.

By: Lucky1

Lucky1 — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:24:31 +0000

Its economical in brazil where its been the main fuel source for the entire country since the oil crisis in the eighties. But not alot of people talk about that.

By: Lord Farkington

Lord Farkington — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:12:29 +0000

The biggest problem with Ethanol is that it has vastly less energy content than gas or diesel.

In the U.S. at least, E85 is more expensive & gives less MPG than cheaper gasoline.

E85 isn’t economical yet.

By: D

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:44:39 +0000

Well, duh.

It’s just like anything else that might potentially reduce our consumption of their main product. They either buy the patent and quietly kill it or simply campaign it into the ground.

Presidents, dictators, royalty and other figureheads can do as they please, but we all know the real world rulers are those with all the money, like Big Oil and Microsoft.