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Because people are only going to buy it if it's economical. If it's too cheap or too expensive compared to gas people will just buy the cheaper per mile one. Most people at least...not performance cars.
You stated that we are destroying the planet. The people who subscribe to that theory with you are claiming that the burning of fossil fuels is the cause and that burning ethanol instead of gasoline is part of the cure. If you support the theory that we are destroying the planet,you need to know that this is their solution. It is what they are saying,not you and I am only telling you what they are saying.
They,and therefore,we are only talking about CO2. We and they are not talking about pollutants like NOX and CO,only CO2/the gas that you and I exhale. Because of this we need to compare the exhaust gasses between an engine running gasoline and the same engine on E85 so we can compare the CO2 output of each fuel. Their claim is that burning E85 will produce less CO2 emissions.The problem with that theory is that as an engine increases in efficiency/burns more completely the fuel it is given,it produces more CO2. We can see this when we inject hydrogen into the air stream of an engine, The hydrogen acts as a catalyst which causes all of the fuel to be burned. When this happens,the CO2 produced will be higher. Again,as the engine burns more and more efficiently,you will find less and less NOX and CO/polutants and more and more CO2 in the exhaust.
E85 costs x amount to produce. If the people who artificially manipulate the price of E85 below what it costs to produce,how do they make a profit?
Do you now agree that ethanol is being forced on us?
Are you saying that a mandate is a gentle
I can get ethanol free gasoline if I put my car on pontoons and pull up to a filling station on one of the local lakes in my area or I can go to the farm store and buy quarts of 91 octane ethanol free gasoline for $5.00. Do you know why I can get ethanol free gasoline at lakes and farm stores? Because ethanol absorbs water and screws up the engines on boats,chainsaws and lawnmowers during the off seasons. I love E85. I don't like the fact that wealth is being taken from people under penalty of law to prop up the ethanol industry. It's bad for the people being harmed and it takes money out of the economy that we could all compete for. It's legal theft. It is,as you said,wealth redistribution.
The EPA is the un-elected bureaucracy that mandates the use of ethanol. It is they who say they are doing it to reduce green house gasses,mainly CO2. I'm only relaying to you what they say.
It absorbs water,it reduces gas mileage,and it is very expensive to produce. If these thing were not true,we would have been using it for the last 100 years to power our internal combustion engines.
I've thought about this as well. It is however quite amazing what E85 allows us to do. The 15% of crappy gasoline in it doesn't seem to get in the way of producing power. Even E70 is amazing.
Why would someone have to force someone to buy a product that is inexpensive?
E 85 is just the latest thing from the ethanol industry. The industry has been moving since the seventies. It sounds like you believe that fuel prices were high because of some unknown/unforeseen reason and that corn prices were low for the same unknown reasons.One of the things that like minded people,who say they want to save the planet,did was make it very difficult for Americans to get oil out of the ground. They did this to cause oil prices to rise. In their great wisdom,they thought this would cause people to drive less and that would help save the planet. The thing that they never imagined happened instead.The price of oil was so high that you could spend more money to get it out of the ground and still make a profit. Since oil doesn't receive any subsides and never has they couldn't make profits as easily as when the price of oil was low. Having a much greater profit margin allowed them to experiment and greatly improve their ability to extract oil and natural gas from shale rock where they couldn't get to it before. Enter hydraulic fracturing. They never saw it coming. The next move was for OPEC to open the spigots to bring the price down to a point where the frackers couldn't make a profit. This worked and caused alot to loose their jobs in the oil business. Too late,however because there was enough time to greatly improve fracking which meant they could get to oil at a cheaper cost and allow for profit. Again,they had to do it at a certain cost to make a profit because they are not subsidized. This all happened during the Obama Presidency. The American entrepreneurial spirit and ingenuity is what brought the prices down from the artificially high price it was at. Now president Trump has opened the way for Americans to get more oil and natural gas out of the ground and,just like that,we lead the world in the production of both.
If you purchase a 55 gallon drum of E98,it will cost you a little over $6.00 per gallon. Why is that?
