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Originally Posted by shattyfatmas
Not to mention that E85 is a brutal lie that most people unfortunately do not understand or are not aware of. In reality, its more environmentally conscientious to use normal gas due to the extremely energy intensive and inefficient process of making E85. Another thing to consider is that buying E85 drives the business of E85, which means more farmland is devoted to growing fuel that isn't helping anyone conserve oil while increasing the price of corn and everything corn goes into.
uh, and its not good for performance unless you need to run 30 PSI of boost, and good luck with that in a Mazda MX-6.
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Ignorant much? The majority of corn grown is used for feed. The proccess for producing ethanol leaves 90% or more original product for feed. The best proccesses leave 100% of the original nutritional value.
There is absolutely NO affect on the price of corn due to ethanol.
You might have a point that it takes more energy to make ethanol rather than pumping oil out of the ground but oil is limited and will run low enough as to be impractical as a major power source.
Eventually we will need to move on.
Ethanol is simply a version of solar energy and can be produced as long as the sun shines.
The holy grail of energy technology is being able to match the efficency of natures energy conversion/storage in a closed system.
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Originally Posted by chief tool
expect it to use 33% more fuel.
So it needs to be at least 33% cheaper to break even, then there is the less distance out of a tank issue.
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Increasing the compression will improve the efficiency. Not 33% but close to half of that is possible. Then theres the matter of load in N/A applications, Having more power everywhere will significantly reduce the throttle angle needed to accelerate at any given pace.