Just saw article in local paper
Good grief. Does it still take more energy to make ethanol than it provides?
Luckily in Detroit there are lots of choices of non-Ethanol fuel. The entire gas station will either have all pumps with a sticker about E-10, or no sticker, hence no ethanol.
Same Price. Sometimes, E10 is pricier at Sunoco than E0 at Speedway across the street. Go figure. Less energy per gallon and pricier? Speedway is always busier of the 2 of them.
Unless they start making different shape nozzles to work with different cars, I see zero good of this, except for corn lobbies.
It is hard enough to get people to inflate tires or add washer fluid. Now the non-attention paying American can blindly go and put stuff in that may void their warranty without realizing it.
What a country... start making ethanol off of waste grasses and products, that provide more energy than they consume during production, then efforts such as E-15 may be worth it for consumers and manufacturers. But foisting this, afte the E-85 did not gain traction like corn states hoped, is just a second attempt at the same bad idea IMHO. Corn should be food first. Does more good. Our cars don't eat ethanol very well yet.
Off of soap box...
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