Ethanol vs Non Ethanol Gas While Towing

MFL wrote:

Yes, it does cost more to produce. The producers are subsidized with our tax dollars, so they can sell it cheap. If left to stand on their own, ethanol producers would fail, and we'd be rid of that cr@p.

As long as they dangle this tax subsidized cheap price in our faces, people will buy and keep them going. Also drives up the cost of food, as most every food source has some corn ingredient.

Most people don't know that, even at a cheaper price, it's not much of a savings. You will burn more of it, than the non-ethanol to go the same distance.

Oh, and I do not tow with it, unless no other choice, which rarely happens.

Jerry

I wasn't referring to the cost of producing pure ethanol from corn. I was saying it cost less for a petroleum company to produce a blend of gasoline with ethanol added.

Most people are smarter than you think. Almost everyone knew for quite some time, we have to burn more gallons of ethanol blended fuel to travel the same millage we would get with non-ethanol gas.

I don't like switching back and forth between an ethanol blend and non-ethanol gas, so towing or not, I burn 10% ethanol blended gas. I have no issues with it other than poorer fuel millage. Besides the mile or two per gallon gained by using non-ethanol gas would not compensate for the added cost per gallon.

The farmers that grow the corn have to eat too, you know. Along with the truckers hauling it and the plant workers producing the ethanol, etc.