Quick? you have a choice to buy traditional fuel with Ethanol of traditional fuel without ethanol for the same price? Which do you pick?
You might make the wrong decision if you did not know that you get more energy out of a gallon of regular traditional fuel then out of a gallon that contains ethanol.
If it's a gallon of E-10, which is a blend of 10 percent ethanol and conventional traditional fuel now widely available in many city areas, there's an energy difference of about 3.4 percent.
Now that may not seem like much when you're topping off the tank this week. But over the course of a year of normal driving, it would take an additional 40 gallons of E-10 to go the same distance as conventional traditional fuel. If they were both priced the same, it would mean an extra $120.
Mileage can suffer by about 25 percent with E-85, according to AAA. Over the course of a year, that amounts to an extra 300 gallons of E-85 to go the same distance as when using conventional traditional fuel.
So beware of ethanol traditional fuel at any price because you are very possibly going to pay more for less.
The Bush energy bill of 2007 enforces a great increase in ethanol traditional fuel and that means an even bigger impact, nationwide, on the MPG.
In Missouri, we're already there. Since January, E-10 has been required for regular and midgrade traditional fueloline
Experts say it's difficult to blame E-10 for that much of a decline.
AAA now calculates a price for E-85 to adjust for its energy content. The national average pump price for the fuel on Thursday was $2.91 per gallon; regular traditional fueloline was $3.56. The AAA calculation considering the energy content jumped the ethanol price up to $3.83 though which was twenty-seven cents more than the regular traditional fuel.
In fact, it's now tough for ethanol, because of the energy loss, to be priced at a level so it can beat the price of conventional traditional fueloline. That's because a growing share of the nation's corn production is being diverted to producing ethanol, which has been a contributing factor in driving corn prices over $6 a bushel.
General Motors has manufactured over three million cars and SUVs that can use traditional traditional fuel or E-84 but they are also expessing concern over the price competitiveness of E-85 with the energy factor considered.
I think the main point here is that ethanol is a lousy fuel source and there are better alternatives.
One of the best ways to go is with Water4Gas.
The advantages that Water4Gas members are happy to reap from their membership are basically these...
Lower fuel usage up to 20, 30 or 50% or even higher. This percentage varies widely from one vehicle to another, naturally. But there seems to be a universally positive response from members as they see that their traditional fuel consumption actually does go down.
The knowledge that your car emissions are clean and you are not harming the environment.
And also there is an opportunity to create more income for themselves by helping others get these great benefits of Water4Gas.
There are other benefits, besides.
Amongst these is the awareness that while others are suffering you don't have to and you can help them stop suffering from high traditional fuel prices!
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