What are the cons of using E-85?

Answer 1

1. Make SURE your vehicle can run on it. Cannot stress that enough. Check with your dealership if you are unsure.

2. It has more alcohol in it, so may vapor lock a vehicle in extreme heat conditions.

3. It does not fire as easily as gasoline, therefore, makes the vehicle harder to start in the winter.

4. Decreases fuel mileage.

Pros:
1. Helps the grain market, in turn, helping farmers.

2. The cattlemen around the ethanol plant here actually use the corn bi-product to feed their cattle and it is actually saving them money. (Meat prices are also getting higher due to the mad cow disease and other diseases.)

3. Cheaper fuel. In Iowa, the taxes on ethanol fuel is less than regular unleaded fuel. :)

4. The corn we use in the ethanol plant here is grown here, so therefore this is more of a domestic product, not shipped in from over seas.

Answer 2

Fuel mileage is hurt.

Also, it is so difficult to produce from corn that it is actually more harmful to the environment that regular gasoline.

The increased demand for corn has driven up grain prices, which is also used as livestock feed. Thus you have seen meat prices go up everywhere because of the use of corn-based ethanol.

Answer 3

Your car has to be equiped to run on it.

E-85 doesn't pack as much punch as regular gasoline so you won't go as far on a tankful, and it's harder to find, but if you can buy it for 15%-25% cheaper than gas, you should be coming out ahead.

Answer 4

it will rot your gas lines and gas tank if metal and eat away rubber seals in your engine and the best one is you will get 27% less gas mileage with it.

Answer 5

you need to check to make SURE your vehicle is capable of using this fuel WITHOUT causing motor component damage