So, it seems I can't get any real gas around southeast alabama anymore. Most all the low cost gas locations like Big/Little aka Chevronwhich is taken over by Inland are switching to 10% ethanol. So, other than the 10-25% reduced mileage range, what else is a negative about this type of gas? Other than saving the environment, what is good about it? They say it is comparitively priced to regular gas, but doesn't that mean that you pay about the same to go less miles? I for one don't care much about all this tree-hugging...give me more mileage!!! What's your say? Pros and Cons?

 

Hi somenothingness....Ethanol & other bio-fuels aren't environmental.

Prof. Mark Jacobsen states that E85 bio-fuels cause as much air pollution disease & death as oil burningbi-products.

Ethanol & bio-fuelspit fuel hungry engines directly against the poor, since bio-fuels are raising food crop prices like crazy. You see, oil has so much energy, that to displacejust a bit ofoil consumption with bio-fuels, takes hugeareas of otherwise food producing land to produce bio-fuel crops.

Wild land use actions arehappening, such as further cutting of tropical forests to gain land for bio-fuel crop production, increased 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico off the Mississippi River delta from fertilizer run-offgrowing bio-fuel crops, & developing weedy but rampant growth crops for bio-mass fuel whichis encouraging weed invasive species.

To use bio-fuels instead of oil products for engine fuel is to switch from one set of many problems to another set of many problems. [:-][:@][]