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Subject:Re: e15
From:Marc Perdue
Date:Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:04:08 -0500

Mike,

I guess I misunderstood. I thought you were saying the number of miles per
gallon of pure gasoline vs. a gallon of e85 . . . It doesn't make sense
that adding ethanol would REDUCE the number of miles you could drive with a
gallon of gas...

Scratches head...
Marc

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Mike Riley <mkriley@fuse.net> wrote:

> mark,
>  I was the one that talked about the mileage not mpg. To make it simple I
> was talking about miles travelled. Take a given amount of pure gas and
> drive until  it runs out and read the miles travelled.
> Ad 15% ethanol to the same volume of pure gas and you will travel fewer
> miles on a greater volume of fuel!
> mike
>