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Dave Lyon wrote:

Here's the deal. I have a truck that will burn E85 without
modifications. I
simply pull up to the pump, fill'er up, and drive away. There is a pump
that
is on a route that I pass about once per week. When gas got really high
a
couple of months ago, I did just that because I could get e85 about $.20
per
gallon cheaper. Now that gas has gone down, the price of E85 is about
the
same as gasoline, but I take a 15% hit in fuel economy. When it becomes
more
economical (for whatever reason)to burn E85 than gasoline, that's what
I,
and many others will do. In the mean time, I know very few people that
will
use it when it takes extra money out of their pocket.

Even your usage during the high gas price times doesn't seem to compute
- don't you loose more value by burning 15% more fuel that you gain by
getting 20 cents a gallon off a price in the $2-$3 range (which would
be a less than 10 percent lower price)


Yep, you're right. But, at the time I didn't know I was going to take a 15%
fuel economy loss.