Simple is my 2003 4.6 gets an even 17 on the highway and my 2011 flex fuel gets 18.7 on the same highway at the same speed over the same 260 miles driven. New engine, new trans, higher compression and designed for E85 and is great in july.

 

I wished the nearest E85 pump wasn't a 3hr drive round trip.

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They don't even sell E85 in the state of Maine.

 

Wish that was the case for me, being so close yet so far away is like dying of thirst and the only water available is a mud puddle.

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A lot of gas stations around my area sell E85.
Check out this site!
http://www.e85locator.net/E85locations.html

 

Been there done that, I'm in New Orleans and nearest station is in Baton Rouge.

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I live near Appleton,WI. I guess we have a few more corn fields up in this area. ;-)

 

Hey, the best man in my wedding is from Appleton.


Sorry, random post.

 

LONG TERM ... corn ethanol is not a sustainable source of fuel. It just isn't. The fertilizer it requires, the mono-cropping it requires, the water it requires, the diesel fuel in the implements it requires, the millions of gallons of water required to ferment it, the diesel fuel it for delivery it requires, the lower mpg it produces... in the end this is a BUNK product.

 

The diesel fuel it takes to deliver it? Like regular gas just frigging appears at the station or something. As for cost of refining, gas has a cost as well. Is ethanol perfect? No, but as the technology unfolds and the use of other crops, grown on land not generally used for crops or livestock, increases we can see a lower cost product. When motors (not just fuel systems in motors designed for regular gas) are built specifically for ethanol the MPG's will be more in line with regular gas motors. The "waste" product from the crops used for ethanol become food for my cows, so the whole "ethanol is depleting livestock feed" that some have claimed is false. There is way to many people gleaning bits of information from the web and basing their negative opinions on it, giving no credence or credit to the positives of ethanol and its potential future.