Ideas Needed: Why sudden drop in mpg?
I always seem to average right around 8.5 mpg however the return leg of this last trip I saw averages around 7.5 and that concerned me. I'm looking for reasons this could have happened. 1) The ret...
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Snowman9000 wrote:
Re-reading this, I see where a thinking person might ask "What money? Gas with ethanol is cheaper." Yes, but only because of tax breaks. At the refinery level before taxes, 100% gas is cheaper than 100% ethanol. The 90-10 mix is more expensive than pure gas, before the tax breaks.
The tax breaks are all gone-----they ended a year or two ago.
What ethanol does allow the refiners to do is refine lower grade gas and then up the octane rating with the addition of ethanol.
