What is E85?
Hi everyone. It's been awhile. That happens when you have work, baby, husband, pets, baby, family, and well more baby. My daughter is now 9 months old. Crazy how time flies.
Today I was to rant and rave about E85.
I drive a least 20 to work one way. With the recent gas prices rocketing to unaffordable I started paying more attention to what I was paying for gas. Can I just tell you that anything over $2.00 is ridiculous, but now that is it over $3.00 I just want to cry. I don't even try to be totally cool, soccer mom SUV's. I drive a Saturn Ion III. It is very good on gas and I absolutely love it, but I just can't help but cringe when I have to fill up my car when it gets to half tank so I don't have to pay over $30.00. It is just madness.
Well lately I have seen a lot of commercials and press on E85. I decided to check it out. It turns out we have the technology to use less oil and more ethanol. More specifically 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline. You know what the best part is, the by-product of this fuel is Carbon Dioxide; the stuff plants need to grow. Is that not crazy? We have the technology, which is getting better by the day, to 1) create our own fuel, 2) which produces the very by-product is the very thing that plants need to grown. More plants grow, be clean the air, we breathe better. Ahhh It just makse so much sense to go this route.
Granted like most things, the technology still needs work, but it is efficient enough for us to begin now. Where is the down side to this? So as I keep reading, I am just waiting for someone to tell me why, as American citizens, this is not in the news? What is wrong? I just don't see the down side. Sure I may have to get a new car, and while I can't afford it at present time, I would gladly find a way to make it happen. We are talking about keeping the availablity to drive, helping to clean our air, and make a fuel source for ourselves. As my husband so graciously put it, with this new fuel we could pretty much tell outside countries, Thank you but no thanks (my husband used a lot more colorful words), we're covered.
So if you find yourself interested in learning more, please see the links below. If you are like me, write to your congressman/woman let get the E85 wagon going. Let's be bold, daring and brave, and truly step in line to save the planet.
http://www.ethanol.org/
http://www.e85fuel.com/e85101/faqs/e85.php
posted by SunnyTreasures at 8:31 PM
2 Comments:
Sunny,
Here, here! I drive a Honda Civic, one of the most efficient gas cars to date. When I first got it 4 years ago, it took me $16 to fill the tank. Just last week, it took me $36 to fill it with a quarter tank left!
Stop the madness!
E85 may or may not be the end all be all to our gas problem...but it's a start! I'm sure some politico would come out and say that converting all cars to take E85 would be a burden to the consumer.
I say, let me (Hi, I'm a consumer!) make that decision for myself. Put it out there and let capitalism take over!
Or is there too much money for big oil and the Mid-East to lose?
Rant on that, politicos.
- Lily
Sunny,
Damn straight. I have Kia Sportage, a pretty fuel efficient car but when I end up paying $40 to fill it up all I can do is shake my head.
E85 would be great if the oil corporations would stop being so greedy. Also, whatever happened to all the other alternative fuel options companies were working on? Over the years I've heard of a few non-oil based fuels. Guess that's not happening anymore.
And damn...could they make hybrids more affordable?
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