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Originally Posted by IROC View Post
Edmunds (or somebdoy, I forget) ran a pretty well crafted test a while back using a Tahoe over the same route, same time of day, blah, blah blah comparing E85 and regular 10% ethanol gas. The E85 resulted in only ~66% of the gas mileage as the "regular" fuel.
Car and Driver. They also found the 0-60 and 1/4 mile times improved slightly. You can pump more fuel through when it carries some of it's own oxygen.
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