[fabsroman]

Skeeter,

If you read all my posts in this thread, you would see that GM makes several flex fuel trucks/SUV's that can haul around your toolbox and Ford makes a flex fuel F-150.

Yeah, E85 might eventually become as expensive as gasoline, but it will still provide our nation with oil independance from the Middle East. If you have to pay $4 a gallon for gasoline, why not pay $3.75 for E85 and help out the country, especially since the E85 motor doesn't cost anything extra and allows you to run the motor on straight gasoline if you want to.

No, I do not have stock in flex fuel vehicles, but metaphorically speaking you could say I have a stock in this nation and the environment.

If you want to heat your house for cheap, but a wood stove and a chain saw and find somebody that will let you cut wood out of their woods. I drove my F-350 on one trip this fall, took my brother's 12' trailer on it, and met my dad at the farm with his F-150. In a single afternoon, with my brother's help and a friend's help, we loaded up both trucks and the trailer and both my dad and my brother had enough wood for the entire year.

Regarding the conversion from gasoline to E85, I do not think it is impossible. The government outlawed the use of leaded gasoline many years ago. Auto makers could not make vehicles that used leaded gasoline. Gas stations continued to carry the stuff until the demand entirely went away, and they installed the unleaded pumps. They even ended up installing three different grades of gasoline. So, why is it so hard to install an E85 pump? If possible, they could do away with the medium grade gasoline now offered and offer E85 out of it, but I do not know if this is feasible (i.e., can E85 be pumped through the same system as gasoline).