Loren, you know This is by no means an attempt to "Save the whales" I can legally produce a fuel that is 105 octane Easy to make, Cheap (even with my little lab still (in 5 gal batches) My cost is comparable with gasoline) In addition being able to run on 51% or greater ethanol Makes the car Legal as Altered fuel. I did add a small amount of lubricity modifier to the fuel as a precaution to protect the injectors and Fuel pump (not that it's needed)

Mars, you can See I did Loose 15% Mileage In Most states the E85 was 25 cents a gallon cheaper then regular unleaded and some it was as much as 35 cents. so even at the quarter a gallon, the lack of mileage did wash any direct savings. Here is where it gets interesting. because I was blending with regular unleaded and my car usually runs super I was able to get the 93 octane my car likes actually a 50/50 mix is around 96 octane. which adds another 20 cents a gallon of value. a 3 gallon booster mix (in my 12 gallon tank) seems to offer the best $$ economy since there is little to no degradation in mileage and it boosts the effective octane to 91.5 (that's good enough for the sentra to not pull timing and operate as norm)
(a net savings of $3.00 a tank)


My goal here is to stick it to the man. and yes to help our economy. If corn and related prices go up in the meantime it's ok, the market demand will stabilize, the most important thing is that money is going to Farmer Joe instead of the Sheik and his harem, Since we don't produce anything here anymore it's nice to know we can help keep some cashish in the hands of our residents.

The ethanol producers are looking elsewhere for base materials, Sugar beets, cane, Waste materials. the price of corn has made this logical. NOW!!! here comes the cool part. we live in an economy (Florida) that will be directly effected by this. since we have the land and he weather to be a farming powerhouse. (we could flop the cane switch in a heartbeat) oh and land is getting cheap again. Not to mention the boost the Phosphorous production from the extra fertilizer needed this is a major part to our state economy (Polk county thanks you)

The country is in survival mode. every little bit helps. for example
there are around 250,000,000 Cars Registered in the US. is each one use just ONE gallon a week. (removing for state tax and assuming $1.50 a gallon goes back into our economy) that's 19.5 BILLION dollars a year. that otherwise would have gone overseas. and ANY car built since 1996 is safe to run on a minimum of E10 (that's about 1.5 gallons per tank) and still remain under warranty.

Not to mention Ethanol is the only major Fuel that will not upset motor sports as we know it. sure you have to re-tune for it but this is a minor problem compared to CNG, Hydrogen, Electric, fuel cells, hybrids. None of which (except biodiesel) have shown any promise as a motorsports power source. and people are comfortable with pulling up to a pump and adding go-juice. which both Eth and BioD provide seemless end user intervention.