Cummins Ethos E85 Turbo Four-Cylinder Engine Unveiled

Hi Kell490, Actually, last Friday it was $1.59/gal and there are no state subsidies on E85 even in corn states that I am aware of. There have been programs in the past to make new blender pumps cheaper from states, but that would have a negligible effect. Since the money would go to products and banks in that state rather than Arabs and transnational oil company's Swiss bank accounts, any subsidy on the pumps are paid back many fold. The cost per mile is the same and ethanol is not subsidized. Gasoline has subsidies that if included in its price would be more than double. Hybrids are not that great, my 2015 chevy is better in mpg than my 2011 hybrid. Just having start/stop capability would be affordable and capture most effeciencies hybrids have. In 2011 there were two chevy hybrid models, mine was the cheaper one because I needed to seat six people at times. Its list was for $36000(FYI the list went to around $41000 before they quit making it) The salesman told me at the time that the same pickup not a hybrid would be $3000 cheaper. I computed with the EPA mileage that I would have to own it with gas prices at the time to 100000 miles. It is at 90000 now. I leased a 2011 Lincoln hybrid too, it had a small trunk and not that great of mileage and my Chevy pickup lost storage under back seat because of the batteries as well. The amount of copper to build the electric infrastructure to supply power to cars would be huge along with the cars themselves. Copper prices would have to soar. Solar does not shine at night when people are home from work to charge their cars. Solar is currently .004 of US electric supply. It uses even more rare silver in big quantities. E85 from what I see removes calcium from oil which is a detergent added to oil for the soot gasoline and other nasties (i.e.BTX) added to our fuel. E100 would not need detergent as no soot would be generated. In fact and ethanol powered car would probably remove soot from the air it burned. Natural gas adds carbon to our ecosystem where ethanol recycles carbon, even removing carbon. Watch the movie Pump, the electric trolly system at the turn of the century is absolutely amazing, we went backwards and it had nothing to do with economics. You can not believe how many small towns everywhere had them. Ethanol is covered in the movie as well. The future close to perfect fuel is right under our noses, but big oil wants our future to be toxic tar sands and fracking. This Cummins Ethos engine makes it a no brainer. Thanks for the discussion, Fletch