High gas prices..how about regular?

[JCL]

Originally Posted by Buzzcut

I'm going to throw a hand grenade into this conversation...

I started mixing E85 into my gas. ....

It is hard to say if there is a hit to mileage.

Here is a thread on another member who was experimenting with E85. I posted BMW's paper on warnings re E85 in that thread.

http://www.xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-foru...l-mixture.html

It shouldn't be hard to say if there is a hit to mileage. It may be hard to measure the mileage accurately given other changes like weather, driving habits, etc, but the hit to mileage should be pretty close to 22%, eliminating all the other variables. That is just due to the 26% lower energy content of pure ethanol, and the resultant 22% lower energy content of E85, on a volumetric basis.