E-85 Not worth the effort!!

[treatneggy]

Originally Posted by Wanger

Farmers gotta make money, too. With the oil companies cleaning house like they do, do you blame them?

One of the "selling points" is that it purportedly reduces dependency on foreign oil, as it is produced domestically.

Unfortunately, it takes foreign oil to power the tractors and trucks to plant, harvest and then transport the corn to the processing plants. How much diesel gets burned for each gallon of ethanol that's produced?

[SvilleKid]

Originally Posted by treatneggy

Unfortunately, it takes foreign oil to power the tractors and trucks to plant, harvest and then transport the corn to the processing plants. How much diesel gets burned for each gallon of ethanol that's produced?

Oh, it's already a known fact that it takes more energy to produce a gallon of E85 than that gallon of E-85 reproduces! That kind of circle logic escapes me.

However, my main post to start this thread was to point out the difference in fuel economy between E-85 and gasoline, and how it was not cost effective to run E-85 because the fuel economy was much different than the price difference. And, to kick myself for NOT having done the homework before hand to discover that. By posting the thread, I hope to alert others to that situation, so they won't make the same mistake I made.

I don't think we are stepping on anyone's toes by expanding the thread, but let's keep it civil and make sure we don't stray into anything political that might get the thread axed. Thanks for the comments so far.