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While this article may hold some facts, some of this is blown out of proportion. Take into account that the government pays some farmers not to plant a crop in a field or to plant a different crop. This keeps supply lower and keeps cost higher for the consumers (us) and helps keep farmers in bussiness, because lets face it, when the supply goes up prices go down. When the prices go down, farmers loose money. Another thing is the vehivle preformance, yes it lowers gas mileage SLIGHTLY I'm talking less than a mile a gallon, it also lowers high end horsepower because it burns slower. If you have higher compression then it works better because it increases the flamiblity. Around 150 Psi. It raises Low end power and tourqe tremendously. BECAUSE it burns slower. Now from a drag racing point of view this is bad, but from a normal driving point of view, this means you have the power you need to take off with out giving the engine the extra gas. Ethanol also is cleaner than gas, that is your injectors do not clog as easy. And water in you gas tank? Water will abosorb into alcohol, that is all that water remover is alcohol. So no more water in the tank. We've had the ability to run ethanol for years, if we could have started using it earlier look at all the improvements and data we could have now, but since a lot of people don't know a whole lot about it they are tring to scare you away from it. Just look at the name of the website, "my PEAK OIL"? What the reasearchers agree on is a guess, they have no idea what could happen, no one does. So it is up to us to make a decision, just remeber, vehicles with EFI (electronic fuel injection) and ET (electronic timing) adjust automatically for the fuel older may need to be tuned for the difference burning rates. Unless the vehicle is designed for E85, I would recomend a 50% mix with gasoline. Every 10% of ethanol adds 3 octane points. Again, I am just telling you facts, I invite you to make your own conclusion. The Horsepower part is from experiance and dyno tests on tractors running about 22 or 23 hundred RPM, older tractors about 1954 or so. IN my mind I think the article I am commenting on is a LOAD OF CRAP!!!!! Thanks for reading I hope you learned something.