Think Ethanol Will Help Your MPG? Think Again

Should you choose for regular traditional fuel or traditional fuel with ethanol if you have a choice to pay one or the other at the same price per gallon?
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 Kansas, there is no requirement to sell fuel with ethanol, but more than 50 percent of the traditional fueloline sold in the state now contains ethanol. That is expected to increase next year when traditional fuel retailers in the state that sell E-10 will be eligible for tax credits.
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. 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.
So far, GM has produced 3 million vehicles that can use conventional fuel or E-85. The price of E-85 needs to at least be competitive, after being adjusted for its energy content, with conventional traditional fuel to ensure that more of it is used, the automaker says.
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