Jocie Iszler letter: Benefits of E85 more than mileage

[RC]

http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=108603§ion=Opinion

So you get more power, but a decrease in gas mileage? That doesn't compute.

Octane is a measure of how fast something burns. With the writer's thinking(?) then water, which does not burn under normal conditions, would have almost infinite octane, therefore infinite power. If he is wrong about this, what else is he wrong about? Other than the fact it takes more energy from oil to produce a given unit of ethanol than you get back from the finished product.

[unhappycamper]

1. Your link is broken. . . . n/t