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Originally Posted by The_Blur
I wish we had more E85. E85 is cheaper than ordinary gas, and getting enough of it would make demand for gas go down, lowering the price of ordinary gas at the same time. I wish we could synthesize it without using so much corn.
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We can, it's just that most people in the business really don't want to make an effort to try anything else. It is made from just the corn kernels, or maybe even just the corn oil, and the rest is discarded like usual. In fact, it can be made from the whole plant; it can be made from other plants; it can be made from garbage; it can be made from sewage; it can be made from discarded tires; it can be made from grass clippings; it can be made from all kinds of things that are worthless and filling up our landfills, requiring expensive new landfills or expensive transportation to distant landfilles; it can probably even be made from stuff that currently gets recycled requiring huge amounts of energy and cost.
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Originally Posted by DGthe3
1) China needs to eat
2) farming requires massive amounts of pesticides and fertilizer derived from oil.
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Thank you. I forgot those important points.
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Originally Posted by Cessna510
Higher fuel prices means it costs more to get the products to us ,simple as that.I run E85 in my tahoe somtimes and although it's cheaper it seems to burn faster...tested it a couple times actually :(
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Yup, in an engine not optimized for it, it's not going to go quite as far. :(