Comments on: E85 Sales Hit by Ethanol Tax Credit Expiration

By: james rust

james rust — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:11:47 +0000

Ethanol from corn should never have taken place. Taxpayers and food eaters have been supporting this industry too long. Abolish the mandates for ethanol use and eliminate the subsidies.

By: james rust

james rust — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:09:33 +0000

If you can raise the compression ratio on gasoline fueled cars you can raise the gas milage. Ethanol has an energy content of 85000 Btu per gallon; gasoline has an energy content of 126,000 Btu per gallon. This is why having mandates for E-85 makes no sense.

The Department of Agriculture is paying filling stations to dedicate pumps to sell E-85 or add pumps selling E-85. I think it is $100,000 to add a pump. Ethanol from corn was a mistake dating back to the Carter administration. Remember “gasohol” will solve our fuel problem. Ethanol from corn has been a subsidized program for over 40 years that needs to be done away with. No one can tell what the cost is to the taxpayers. Politicians from both parties have participated in this scam

By: Daytona

Daytona — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:33:26 +0000

More baloney from oil industry front groups posing as an environmentalist.

Automobiles shouldn’t be getting less gas mileage with E-85. For some reason the automobile manufactures will not manufacture an engine that has higher compression to take advantage of E-85′s much higher octane rating.

By: jay Westrick

jay Westrick — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:46:42 +0000

“It has always been this way and its unclear if it will ever change.” Ricardo, an automobile engineering firm has developed an ethanol optimized engine that gets better MPG than a gas engine but has more power than a diesel. The engine cost less to make than diesel and is lighter. Ricardo has a working model. That is today. There is nothing unclear about the future of ethanol. It is a better fuel. (Period)

Engineering, farming, and technology have to build critical mass to be able to persuade the market to switch. We are at the tipping point.

By: Dan McCullough

Dan McCullough — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:22:15 +0000

And then there is the Reality.. the Loss of the VEETC has not affected the Price of E85…in fact the Price Spread between E85 and Gasoline actually grew to nearly 9% spread in January compared to 7 % in Dec 2011 (when the VEETC was still in effect)

The Price spread between ethanol fell all Summer into winter as the price of corn rose to nearly $8 a bushel (like wise the price of ethanol)..as the price of corn has fallen to $6 range that means the price of ethanol has also fallen

e85prices.com

The Price of Ethanol at the Commodities market (Chicago Board of Trade) is 70 cents LESS than Gasoline (rbob ..refined) cbot.com (energy)