— -- Anything's better than ethanol blend E85, even ordinary gasoline, a new cost-benefit analysis of alternative fuels by researcher John Graham at the Pardee Rand Graduate School finds. Diesels ...

Here's why this works. As you may remember from our first E85 story, ethanol offers up roughly 30 percent less Btu heat-output per pound of fuel compared with gasoline. That means to make the same ...

E85 — aka Flex Fuel — is a domestically produced, renewable, alternative fuel blend consisting of around 85-percent ethanol and 15-percent gasoline. Made for use in specially prepped flex fuel ...

Nebraska ran state vehicles on 10 percent corn ethanol — including this 1970s-era Ford Pinto — more than 40 years ago to prove the fuel wouldn’t damage engines. The state will soon launch another ...