Quote Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy View Post
Methanol is corrosive, ethanol is compatible with most vehicles produced after 1990. Ethanol absorbs moisture out of the air, thus is hygroscopic. It's true you need more alcohol to travel a mile than gasoline. Some vehicles are already E85 compatible. There are devices that can be added to let you run your vehicle on a mixture of ethyl alcohol and gasoline. It usually involves lengthening the time a fuel injector is open. All Indy 500 cars now run on pure ethanol (ethy alcohol). I got most of my info from http://www.journeytoforever.org/ethanol.html
And I will agree with you. One more point about E85. When we had that cold snap last month over 1/2 of our cars/vans would not start that morning. If you go to that fuel point at Ft carson there is no more gasoline only E85. My last two have been E85. I get 11-16 MPG in a dodge caravan on E85 and if it gets to 15 it will not start in the morning.

I only have one vehicle that I could program to "hold the injector open longer". The other is mechanical FI and the other three run on Q-jets.