The Average Price For E-85 Is Out!
Like any regular fuel, E-85 fuel will have its own fixed price. Due to its vast popularity and the thousands of consumers utilizing this alternative fuel, it’s about time to put E-85 regular price on the charts. Pump your shocks up and down and visit the nearest E85 refueling stations to fill up your E-85-propelled vehicles!
The country’s biggest group for motorists has started bringing out the national average price of the mainly-ethanol mix of fuel this week in its highly-proclaimed AAA Fuel Gauge Report Web site (www.aaafuelgaugereport.com) due to the status of the improving development and interest in the application of E-85 fuel as a remarkable substitute to the usual gas! Pricing information for E-85 is also accessible on AAA’s TripTik® Travel Planner - an interactive mapping, routing and travel planning tool that is offered with no charges at AAA.com.
E-85 is the general term for a motor fuel created from a mixture of approximately 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. The usual gasoline normally has as much as 10 percent ethanol, but much higher concentrations require particular alterations to vehicle engines and fuel systems. Based from the news published at TheAutoChannel.com, the present day’s nationwide standard price of self-serve regular gasoline is $2.811 per gallon compared to $2.334 for a gallon of E-85 according to AAA.
There are just about 4.5 million motor vehicles today on the roads of America that are able to run on E-85 or conventional gasoline through the use of flexible fuel technology. On the other hand, over 1,200 gasoline stations nationwide are now providing E-85 on a regular basis. Nearly all of these gas stations are focused in the upper Midwest next to the nation’s ethanol manufacturing plants although E-85 pumps are starting to come out in other regions too.
“The number of vehicles that can burn E-85 coupled with the number of stations that can dispense it means more motorists should be actively considering the purchase or lease of a vehicle capable of operating on a mostly-ethanol blend of fuel. It is AAA’s belief that given higher oil prices in the future, E-85 will become even more competitively-priced as the ethanol industry continues to develop in the United States and around the world,” said one expert on the matter.
AAA is also posting a nationwide, average “BTU-adjusted E-85 price” that reports for the piece of information that E-85 brings over 25 percent less energy content per gallon than regular gasoline to guide motorists realize the cost differential between E-85 and the usual gasoline. BTU stands for British Thermal Units.
“Simply comparing the retail cost of a gallon of E-85 to a gallon of gasoline does not convey the inherent loss in fuel economy - and increase in vehicle operating expense - that accompanies the use of E-85. AAA’s BTU-adjusted E-85 price is intended to compensate for this situation and provide an apples-to-apples price comparison that is more helpful to consumers,” added Sundstrom of the AAA.
