how will ethanol affect my fuel mileage ?

67Dart273 said
I already posted my findings. I sure as hell don't need to invest time and money for "personal experiences."

Here's the deal with bio and eth- based fuels

1.....If the damn stuff was so great, "we'd all be doing it." If the **** can't economically make it on it's own, then it ain't worth doin'

2....Ask yourself who is pushing this. Last I knew, the people growing the bio mass were getting govt. subsidies. The people pushing it are the greenies and the govt.

3....At current prices, and current mileage, --- and if you aren't smart enough, people who are a HELL of a lot smarter than us have already cooked the numbers on this --- there is no where any advantage between the decreased mileage, the lack of facilities, and the adjustment in price.

Agreed. For a daily driver it might not be worth it, but for a car that needs higher octane and usually that means race gas then it solves that issue at half the price of race gas. But it has its place.

They did a comparison with a chevy avalanche. From vegas to socal the E85 got 6mpg less than gas and cost more at 159 for the trip while gas was 139 I believe. The point I tried to make earlier was that it might be possible that tuning your car for E85 could help that loss as some people switching from carb to EFI sometimes don't notice a big gain in MPG or power. There are always outliers in test, doesn't mean they change the majority.