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.
If it's E-85, a blend containing 85 percent ethanol that can be used in specially equipped vehicles, the energy loss soars and more than offsets its lower cost, even though E-85 is about 60 cents per gallon less at retail than conventional traditional fuel.
Even if ethanol-blended traditional fuel is cheaper, it can still end up costing you more because you're getting less energy. That fact has not been made clear to people. In effect, you can end up paying 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
Some motorists say they are already seeing the effect of ethanol on traditional fuel mileage.
?I've been driving a long time, and I know what I normally get, and I don't get that now,? said Cleon Jones of Stewartsville, Mo.
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. But adjusted for its energy content, the price for E-85 jumps to $3.83, or 27 cents more than regular.
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.
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