When was the last time you filled up with more gallons than dollars? Uh, never? I filled up with E85 for only 85 CENTS this morning! YES!! It was a GM promotion. Thank You!! They even had models from Maximum Talent Agency pump it for you, which wasn't bad. Nice touch. I also had them fill 2 extra 5 gallon tanks. I was prepared. They also gave me a yellow gas cap and E85 Flex Fuel Vehicle badge. Some E85 splashed around on the top of my extra tanks. It evaporated by the time I got home and the inside of Great White didn't stink like it would with gasoline. I love the smell of ethanol compared to gasoline.
156 miles on 12 gallons = 13 mpg. 23 gallons for only $20! Gasoline would have cost me about $60.
Dollar per gallon divided by mpg = cents per mile? So, 85 cents divided by 13 mpg = 6.5 cents per mile. So, at $3 per gallon, you would need a car that gets 46 mpg to be the same. And one that can tow 6,000 pounds.
Ethanol is biodegradable, non toxic, water soluble, and there is a surplus. Did you hear about that oil tanker that spilled 58,000 gallons of oil in the San Francisco Bay?
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If you are concerned about taxing the environment:
The problem with ethanol is that even though less CO2 comes out your tailpipe from auto emissions, more CO2 gets dumped into the atmosphere at the ethanol factory during its fermentation. So unless we scrub the emissions from the factory, these emissions are just as bad for the environment as driving around on petroleum.
How do we scrub the emissions from an ethanol factory? By bubbling them through ponds or tanks full of algae and water. Algae eats the CO2 from emissions and converts it up to 90% into oxygen while it photosynthesizes. The algae that is grown on these emissions can also be fermented and turned into ethanol, which creates a closed-loop energy production cycle.
Check out www.chlorophyllcollective.org for more information about algae.
Hi Meggio,
Thanks for your comment. I love your algae closed loop solution! The ethanol factory I toured took that CO2 and captured it to sell in soda pop and dry ice.
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