The Inconvenient Truth About Ethanol

Should you choose for regular traditional gas or traditional gas with ethanol if you have a choice to pay one or the other at the same price per gallon?
The answer is a simple matter of science. Conventional traditional gas delivers more energy than a gallon that contains ethanol.
If it’s a gallon of E-10, which is a blend of 10 percent ethanol and conventional traditional gas 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 gas. 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 gas.
Even if ethanol-blended traditional gas 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 gas 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 gasoline
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 gasoline 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 gas.
The energy economics of ethanol are a matter of concern to automakers such as General Motors Corp., which is counting on ethanol-fueled cars to give it time to develop other cars that can use other alternative fuels such as hydrogen.
General Motors has manufactured over three million cars and SUVs that can use traditional traditional gas or E-84 but they are also expessing concern over the price competitiveness of E-85 with the energy factor considered.
Really the bottom line is that ethanol is just a lousy idea for an alternative fuel and there are better solutions for sure.
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 traditional gasoline consumption as high as thirty or even fifty percent 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 gas consumption actually does go down.
The other benefit is the warm, fuzzy feeling that one gets when they know that they are helping the environment by not polluting it since their car's emissions are so much cleaner.
And also there is an opportunity to make more money by spreading the good news about 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 gas prices!
Become part of the Water4traditional gas revolution today and start getting the benefits of increased traditional gas mileage, a more powerful engine and cleaner emissions.

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