Can the Yaris run on E85? Anybody try it?

[bronsin]

Enthanal use should be shunned by all consumers! Dont encourage these a holes by buying their crap!

[nookandcrannycar]

I've driven my Yaris in 45 states and in some states the octane rating for the standard grade unleaded is 86 instead of 87. My car has never run differently to any noticeable degree after such fill ups and I've never had any fuel related part fail. However, re 85 octane gas, the previous posters on this thread could easily be correct.

[CrankyOldMan]

Originally Posted by bronsin

Enthanal use should be shunned by all consumers! Dont encourage these a holes by buying their crap!

It's already blended in with your gas, and has been for a long time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#United_States

It's very hard to come up with something that can rival the energy density of petroleum based fuels. The fact that they can get as close as 70% from fermenting corn is pretty impressive.

[why?]

Originally Posted by CrankyOldMan

It's already blended in with your gas, and has been for a long time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#United_States

It's very hard to come up with something that can rival the energy density of petroleum based fuels. The fact that they can get as close as 70% from fermenting corn is pretty impressive.

no it isn't. Destroying a food source to use as fuel when a much better fuel is already in use is really dumb. It is one of the factors that is driving food prices up world wide. If we wanted to use alternative fuels, diesel and people that convert them to using old vegetable oil as fuel, now that is impressive.

Adding ethanol to gas makes it both more expensive and get worse gas mileage. It is a total disaster to everyone that does not sell corn for profit.