Did You Know That Ethanol Can Be Extracted From Sources Such As Prairie Switch Grass, Wood chips, Corn Husks, And Soy
posted in Future Fuels |Among the desperate and ridiculously expensive attempts to find a new fuel for the future, lays a green fuel that has been around for decades. This liquid is called ethanol and has already been mixed with a small amount of gasoline (15% gasoline to be exact) to create the fuel called E85. Ethanol is nothing new, in fact, at a chemical level it is exactly the same to grain alcohol, the same alcohol that is illegal to consume in an open container while driving. What makes E85 so special is its efficiency compared to standard gasoline. E85 increases gas mileage, has roughly 80% fewer carbon emissions, eliminates the emissions of acid rain creating toxins, and on top of all that can be harvested and created from such a wide variety of sources. Ethanol can be extracted from sources such as prairie switch grass, wood chips, corn husks, and soy. So now you know about E85, but what you might not know is that over five million cars and trucks are already outfitted to handle this fuel. Vehicles such as Explorers, Tauruses, Stratuses, Suburbans, and other vehicles are equipped to fuel up right this minute. The technology is called flex-fuel and has been around for several years now. The only problem now is that the fuel is virtually non-existent and extremely hard to find. There are roughly 170,000 gas stations in the