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Flex-Fule conversion? 850 1995

posted by  KlausC on  Fri Feb 15 04:05 CST 2008
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A noble thought, but:
Ethanol is not "green" based on the materials needed to produce it.
Your fuel mileage decreases 10-20% on E85.
Most of our "imported" oil comes from Canada, not the middle east.
The cost to retrofit cars to work with E85 is thousands of dollars, think labor.
The USA will never make enough E85 to make a dent in our consumption of oil.
Buying a Civic hybred with 40/44mpg would be better than trying to convert an old car to run on E85 getting 18/22mpg.

Klaus
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The 164 has a new home, all I am left with are a 95 854T and a 98 V70R :)






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