Yes it is possible to get better gas mileage running E85. As a car ages and the miles rack up, compression is lost and fuel system components clog up. By putting on a conversion kit and using E85, carbon and other crap that has been building up is washed out of the engine. As a result fuel flows more freely and compression is increased. The engine will run more efficiently resulting in more power and better mileage. I found a copy of a before and after emissions test on the
www.change2E85.com website.
http://www.change2e85.com/images/store_ ... 0Scans.pdf It looks pretty much better to me that E85 reduces emissions. I have two conversion kits from
www.change2E85.com and they work great! One on my Cherokee and one on my Corvette.
Here is an artice I found on the web:
A recent article in BusinessWeek (BW) investigated the reasons behind the "shortage" of E85 pumps down at your local gas station– a situation which displeases Detroit's Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) compliance-seeking automakers no end. Apparently, Big Oil's to blame. Shell spokesperson Anne Bryan Peebles admitted her employer is not exactly chomping at the bit to install ethanol spigots. Peebles says E85 requires separate pumps, trucks and storage tanks. All in, it costs some $200k to set-up an E85 pump– whilst satisfying the farrago of local, state and federal health and safety regulations surrounding its installation. [Hence almost all of America's E85 pumps are run by independent gas stations. ] Why not just switch-out a standard pump? The American Petroleum Institute says its pilot programs reveal that many flex fuel consumers fill up just once– after clocking E85's 25 percent hit on their fuel economy. So E85's business case is dubious. Just don't expect much sympathy from automakers. "'Big Oil is at the top of the list for blocking the spread of ethanol acceptance by consumers and the marketplace,' says Loren Beard, senior manager for energy planning and policy at Chrysler. What's more, oil company "foot dragging" is set to worsen the current ethanol glut– which could lower prices to the point where E85 becomes profitable enough for oil companies to accommodate with new pumps; providing federal subsidies continue to prop-up ethanol production.
Big Oil is to blame for the myths, rumors and false reports. They don't want ethanol to be successful. So they release false reports on ethanol emissions, costs of production, and other bogus reports and try to get folks, including some of you posting here, to hate it. They even pay reputable companies to publish reports in THEIR favor. GM recently paid Motorweek to do a false report bashing E85 conversion kits and two weeks later announced that they are going to introduce one in 2008 - hypocracy at its best! I come from a farming family and I love ethanol. My pop used to make it and we ran the farm vehicles on it. It has always been a good thing. I'm so glad for ethanol becuase it is supporting farmers like my family and friends instead of going overseas to some sheik or Hugo Chavez. All of the farmers I know have hope for the first time in many years.
Becareful what you read on the web, there are too many people posting their opionions about ethanol and they have never been to a farm. You want the truth, ask a farmer. Us farming families have been using ethanol for over 100 years.