Like the article said, you will definitely get less miles per gallon using alcohol based fuel. The alcohol has less energy per unit volume. So your friend's drop from 28 to 21 MPG isn't terribly surprising. Also, like the article says, you don't burn alcohol fuel to save money. It is more expensive to produce and less efficient per gallon. The up side is that it is seemingly better for the environment, although I recently read a study from, I think it was Oregon state university, that said when you include what happens when you consider all the land needed to produce the grain, plus the fertilizer needed to grow it, plus the fuel needed to harvest it, plus the fuel needed to distill it, plus the fact that since you need more gallons of it to do the same job and thus have more trucks on the road to deliver it, it turns out to be a wash as far as environmental impact. And, like we have seen, farmers go where the money is. I just read that there is a hops shortage because the farmers have been shifting to growing crops for bio fuel. A shortage of hops means more expensive beer, and that my friends, is a real problem. *GRIN*
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