A bill pushed forward by the House would allow refiners and retailers to sell E15 nationwide, year-round.
  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    To be fair the idea there is that with the extensive corn subsidies, E85 should be significantly cheaper than pure fossil fuel.

    Issue is, even with subsidies, ethanol costs a bunch of money to produce. Farming costs go up too when diesel goes up.

    • clucose@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 days ago

      Ethanol is cheaper then petrol. The prices schould go down with more mixing in.

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        2 days ago

        It should, but the price of ethanol also goes up when fuel prices do. Because it costs fuel to produce ethanol. Not a huge savings by any means.

        • clucose@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 days ago

          But the ratio for the price change is not 1:1.

          Prices will increase with increased demand.