|
e85
Sept 20, 2006 12:34:28 GMT -5
Post by dakota on Sept 20, 2006 12:34:28 GMT -5
$1.85 per gallon in Aberdeen SD yesterday.
|
|
donnie
Grand Member
Posts: 584
|
e85
Sept 20, 2006 14:47:30 GMT -5
Post by donnie on Sept 20, 2006 14:47:30 GMT -5
Yeah but ya gotta have something that can burn it. My understanding is that the mileage sucks. Anyone have any solid Info?
|
|
bounce
Royal Member
Posts: 5,727
|
e85
Sept 20, 2006 15:04:03 GMT -5
Post by bounce on Sept 20, 2006 15:04:03 GMT -5
I have watched info on Brazil and never heard how bad is sucks but it is worse than just gas so your right donnie but I do not know how right? I'm thinking between 10 & 20 %
|
|
|
e85
Sept 20, 2006 15:39:23 GMT -5
Post by dakota on Sept 20, 2006 15:39:23 GMT -5
Not that I am predjudiced on who gets my money, but let me think when was it when a farmer from SD attacked the United States. Hmmmmmm
|
|
bounce
Royal Member
Posts: 5,727
|
e85
Sept 20, 2006 22:09:08 GMT -5
Post by bounce on Sept 20, 2006 22:09:08 GMT -5
Brazil Is more 100% ethenal to some e85, e85 does better than 100% but it's ben more tham a month sence i watch the program and don't remeber all the % differances but I do agree with dakota it is realy no longer very American to want to burn arab oil. Not that I belive for one minet that american companys are going to let farmers get rich. They will buy all the farm morgages first!!!! and their are so few true farmers left now anyway. It's now a term, not a reality.
|
|
|
e85
Sept 21, 2006 7:34:50 GMT -5
Post by jabba on Sept 21, 2006 7:34:50 GMT -5
E-85 averages about 75% of the mileage that 100% gasoline gets.
So if gas will take you 400 miles between fill ups, E-85 will only take you 300. But it burns cooler, cleaner and is easier on your engine.
Jabba
|
|
|
e85
Sept 21, 2006 7:55:56 GMT -5
Post by deputydon on Sept 21, 2006 7:55:56 GMT -5
Bounce is right on this one. When the big Ethanol plant (Thirty miles from my front door) went in about five years ago I jumped for joy "big prices" for area farmers !!!!!! Yeah right.........If .05 cents per bushel; at times the same as rail terminals at others is big And you HAVE to be a PAID stockholder to sale to them if memory serves me a minimum of $ 10,000.00 to buy stock. lets see how many bushels @ .05 cents does that take to break even on the first $ 10,000.00 Hell the chicken ranch (we have the largest one in the world 14 miles away ) pays better for dry corn to produce eggs!!!! Now they need to figure out how to make ethanol from chicken sh$t. As for Bounce's comment on true farmers he's right on the mark. I know VERY few who don't either work off the farm OR have their wifes work off the farm In this day and age it ain't possible w/ the costs of things like Insurance etc. I guess if you want to "farm/ranch" now a days you have to have a second and sometimes third job. Farmers/ranchers truly have adapted to the times to survive. They have no choice!!!! Like I always told my kids as they were growing up about the guys w/ new big machinery and alot of irrigated quarters. "They ain't rich; they just got a GOOD cash flow" {Money in/ money out} All it takes is something to disrupt the flow and their down the tubes. I seen it happen more this them I care to.
|
|
|
e85
Sept 21, 2006 8:00:26 GMT -5
Post by deputydon on Sept 21, 2006 8:00:26 GMT -5
How many of you knew that Henry Fords first auto's ran on 100 % ethanol ? Eventually they were changed to gas because it was cheaper to manufacture. There's your history tid=bit for the day kids. ;D ;D
|
|
|
e85
Sept 21, 2006 8:06:03 GMT -5
Post by dakota on Sept 21, 2006 8:06:03 GMT -5
The ethanol plants in SD pay the farmer pretty well. I suppose it varies from plant to plant.
|
|
|
e85
Sept 21, 2006 23:04:59 GMT -5
Post by jimiowa on Sept 21, 2006 23:04:59 GMT -5
Biggest problem with E85 in Iowa is distribution. Untill this summer there were only 3 stations in the state. They are moving ahead now and I think it will change in the next couple years. Our City put in tanks and all police vehicles are running E85. I don't own a vehicle rated for the stuff yet.
|
|
|
e85
Sept 21, 2006 23:49:39 GMT -5
Post by dakota on Sept 21, 2006 23:49:39 GMT -5
How does a vehicle rated for E85 run on regular fuel? What is the difference between the two (E85 vehicle and a non-E85 or regular vehicle?)? It is the same around here. There are areas where E85 is plentiful and then there are areas where you would have to drive a half a tank to get to a station. I wouldn't mind the E85 capability if it could run as efficiently on the normal unleaded gas some/much of the time.
|
|
|
e85
Sept 22, 2006 6:50:36 GMT -5
Post by deputydon on Sept 22, 2006 6:50:36 GMT -5
It's all in the computer I'm told. Apparently it computer decides what fuel is running though and adjusts accordingly. But it's not recommended that you switch back and forth alot.
|
|
donnie
Grand Member
Posts: 584
|
e85
Sept 22, 2006 7:30:24 GMT -5
Post by donnie on Sept 22, 2006 7:30:24 GMT -5
I'm still waiting for hydrogen!
|
|
|
e85
Sept 22, 2006 9:17:46 GMT -5
Post by dakota on Sept 22, 2006 9:17:46 GMT -5
I suspect that someone, probably a terorist will be giving us one in a form of a huge explosion. But that isn't what you mean, hopefully. Hydrogen fuel would be nice. Converting water to hydrogen could be done by several means such as solar (at least indirectly) or wind (indirectly). There is experimenting being done that converts power from ocean tide to electricity - once in the form of electricity water could be converted to hydrogen and oxygen. I think the problem is getting the hydrogen to the vehicles.
|
|
|
e85
Sept 22, 2006 13:37:51 GMT -5
Post by dakota on Sept 22, 2006 13:37:51 GMT -5
|
|