I've seen all the arguments for and against ethanol and I mostly try to aviod it, even though we have it mixed in with our regular gas here (up to 10%). But as I was driving home from an ATV trip this weekend, I passed a place that sells E-85, and it was over a dollar/gal cheaper [:@]

My question is this:

I have a brand new (Nov 07) 2008 Ram QC with a 5.7, will this run E85? Or will the damage to the engine outweigh the benefits of a tank of gas for less than $100 ?

 

No

 

+1, you can't run it on a hemi.

and despite it being a dollar cheaper, it will still end up costing you about the same amount (assuming $4.0 a gallon). ethanol costs you roughly 27% efficiency. $1/$4 is 25%.

 

i believe it was only for the 4.7's

 

Thanks guys, gas is leveling off here its now 3.99.

 

Got gas here beat by AT LEAST a quarter

 

As I stated in a previous post about this topic....

 

Only the flex fuel 4.7 runs it. I don't see why anyone who has access to the stuff and drives a flex fuel vehicle wouldn't run it. It ends up costing the same, and more of your money stays here in America instead of going to some goat humping rag head. It's a no brainer.

 

It actually costs more to run E85 than reg unleaded.&amp\\;nbsp\\; You burn more E85 to get the same energy that you would get from regular unleaded.&amp\\;nbsp\\; The lower E85 cost does not make up for additional amount of E85 burned.&amp\\;nbsp\\; The main benefits of E85 are less pollution and more money to the farmers.&amp\\;nbsp\\; Negative is that it cost the driver more to use it.

 

and you're raising the cost of food because farmers don't want to grow plants for food anymore since htey get plants for fuel subsidized, and you actually INCREASE emissions (but the thought is that its greener because you release the same emissiosn that went into the plant a couple years ago, not thousands of years ago like with oil), and you're sucking the nutrients out of the ground faster than the ground can get it in some places because people are trying to grow corn in places that can't support it (thereby killing other plantlife), and you cause an increase in the amount of fuel actually burned since more liquid has to be transported to get the same amount of fuel energy aroudn to people (so more trucks make more trips to supply fuel, especially since ethanol can't be transported long distances in pipelines like gasoline can), and since more stuff is being grown more chemicals are being put into the ground. but yea, other than that, it's a no brainer. oh, and did i mention that we can't possibly grow enough corn to have everyone drive E85, so it's not a sustainable solution? but other than all that...