# Ethanol is a failure (split)

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [April 26, 2011, 5:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ethanol-is-a-failure-split/258091 "2011-04-26T05:58:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ethanol-is-a-failure-split/258091/26 "2011-04-26T12:26:41Z")

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> [@Twins unknowingly marry each other](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/twins-unknowingly-marry-each-other/41655/15):
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> I’ve been paying 3.19 for the past few weeks.
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> Cheapest I paid last yr was 1.99.
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> When I got tuned last year I paid 2.20 gal… E85 is highest in the winter and drops a bit in the summer… But that was last yr.

You’re paying less but you’re also getting less mpg. It’s the same , or even more expensive, as normal gas in the end. E85 produces 25-30% less energy than 87 octane.

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