Comments on: Using Ethanol Blended Gasoline: Does It Make Sense?

By: watch mobile

watch mobile — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:55:26 +0000

great article thanks for sharing

By: davage

davage — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:12:00 +0000

I work on a lot of newer “more efficient” vehicles the E85 ethanol we use here is ruining fuel pumps and destroying smaller car engines, and no it does not remove water it collects it from the air in the tank and pulls it into the gas DONT use ethanol mixed gas EVER

By: davage

davage — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:12:00 +0000

By: Gary Dikkers

Gary Dikkers — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:22:00 +0000

Matthew said: "You might consider running E10 as part of the political and economic movement to move away from dependence on middle eastern oil. It might be a good idea to use it once in a while to get any unwanted water out of your gas tank, but in the end, it’s mostly a wash."

Matthew,

Here's my experience with E10:

I drive a GMC Sonoma light pickup truck. Four-cylinders, manual transmission.

Burning regular gasoline I average 32 mpg on long highway trips at constant speeds. When I burn E10, I average 29 mpg for the same kind of trips.

That means on a theoretical trip of 320 miles, I would burn 10 gallons of gasoline, or slightly more than 11 gallons of E10 (11.03 to be exact).

But wait, if I burn E10, 90% of those 11 gallons are gasoline. That means if I burn E10 on a 320 mile trip, I still burn 9.93 gallons of gasoline.

My conclusion is that whether I burn gasoline or E10, I end up burning essentially the same amount of gasoline.

I long ago concluded it makes no sense for me to burn E10, especially considering the resources that were used producing the ethanol that goes into that E10.

Regards,

Gary Dikkers

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:15:00 +0000

You might consider running E10 as part of the political and economic movement to move away from dependence on middle eastern oil

This really bothers me when people beat the Middle Eastern oil import horse. According to the DOE of the top 15 countries from which we import our crude oil as of April 2007, only 3 are from the Middle East. In the top 15, we import 22.4% of our crude oil from the Middle Eastern countries while we import 35.1% of our crude oil from Canada and Mexico. Now I agree we need to reduce our imports, but people need to know that we are supported more by countries in our hemesphere than the Middle Eastern countries.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:34:00 +0000

I’m disappointed in you. Aren’t you a personal finance blog? Don’t you know what happens to the cost of corn and all food that uses corn in the production change when we increase our reliance on corn-based fuel? Corn ethanol is bad, bad, bad for the consumer.

And ethanol will not reduce out dependence on foreign oil one drop, even if everybody drives E85 gas. Until we can produce or import energy-producing ethanol, then we’ll use more fossil fuel energy to produce ethanol than the energy it gives us. Corn ethanol and wood ethanol are both energy-consuming, unlike importable sugar ethanol. But important sugar ethanol isn’t politically viable in an electoral system dominated by Iowa corn growers.