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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Hiya,
It is well known that the oxygenated gas will not be as efficient...so a loss of mpg is not surprising as you see (I know I have been curious as to how my truck would do as well). That loss in mpg is due to alcohol not being as efficient as a fuel source...doesn't make it bad stuff, but there is a price since it does not contain the same output as real gas. If anything, I feel the changing over to the more products with alcohol in them is just a band-aid until someone out there finds a very inexpensive renewable resource that will still give people the power for their vehicles that normal fuels do. Not sure it will happen in our lifetimes, but I do feel pretty positive it will.
So...not so sure it is a "hosing" so to speak....it's a short term fix for a long-term problem.... And...being in a free market country as we are, people will get rich off of things at the expense of others...that is just the name of the game, whether we like it or not...unfortunately.
Steve |
