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**360ci** · 04-26-2008, 19:51

I hope not. E85 lowers mileage as well giving you 30% less traveling distance per fill up. It's not even available in most Canadian provinces yet vehicles are sold with the E85 engine option!

I agree with the fact that we have to ween ourselves off of imported fuel, but at the same time, the corn it takes to produce a tank of E85 for the average SUV could feed one person for an entire year. With the price of rice in China (lol) going up 40% in the last few quarters alone it's not a laughing matter, and it'll hit here just as hard as it hit the easterners.

I did some business in China earlier this year and it's a booming place. Most middle class bike or use scooters. Upper class drive premium marque cars (MB, BMW Cadillac etc), and with so many smaller cars being introduced for cheap the middle class are moving up to personal family transportation. It's so bad for fuel right now that trucks (big rigs) that move freight aren't guaranteed to get fuel on any given day because the demand outweighs the supply! It's only going to get worse. Let alone the fact that E85 is priced the same, if not close to 87 octane fuel and gets less mileage. There are better ways to produce energy, but none of which are affordable for the average consumer.