Ethanol/Gasoline Re: <VV> Price of Gasoline Contest

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Ken,
       By "gasahol" do you mean E-85?  Or E-10?  If you mean E-85, which has 
about 2/3 of the heating value of straight gasoline, then the equivalent price 
of gasoline would be $2.03 divided by 2/3 = $3.04.  That's still more than 
what we are now paying for gasoline in the North NJ area which is about $2.50 
per gallon.  But we were paying over $3 per gallon a few weeks ago.
       So the miles per gallon will usually be LESS with E-85 than with 
straight gasoline, unless you can raise the compression ratio to take advantage of 
the much higher octane rating of E-85.  On their planned "flex-fuel" turbo 
car, Saab raises the boost level substantially when the computer detects that 
E-85 is being fed to the engine.  
       In their current TV advertising, Ford says that they will produce 
around "a quarter of a million" flex-fuel vehicles for 2006.  Hopefully these 
won't be all trucks and fleet vehicles.  Or will Ford send most of them to Brazil?
       Unfortunately, here in the Northeast we have NO stations selling E-85.
       Frank "prefers subsidizing ADM rather than Saudi Royalty" Burkhard 

In a message dated 10/30/05 8:59:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
deltainc at grm.net writes:

> lo erryone:
> 
> Price of gasahol in Iowa at chain ( caseys ) stations is $2.03 today .... do
> I win the contest, or what !!!!!!!!
> 
> Send placques, checks, money orders and free merchandise to:
> 
> PO BO's Gasoline Fund
> Box 156
> Lorimor, Iowa, 50149
> 
> *****************
> Of further interest, at the Iowa state fair ground racetrack tuesday next
> ( 1 nov ) there will be a last-car-running contest between an E-85 burning
> car and a ( supposedly identical otherwise ) "regular" burning car.
> ... oh,  they are throwing in a police car burning E85, just for fun, which
> will have no relevance as far as I can see, but maybe a chuckle.....
> 
> ****
> Put in x gallons, run them until they all stop.  report mileage, and cost
> per mile.
> *********
> 
> A skeptic might ask " since there are already millions of public stocks
> being sold to capitalize quite a few new Alcohol Refineries (
> distillers??? ) here in Iowa, maybe someone should have run this test a few
> months ago ??
> ********
> ken campbell, easily entertained in Iowa
>