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Had a question about how E85 fuel relates to CAFE. If alternate fuel vehicles, IE hydrogen, electric, etc., have a calculated equivilent mileage, then why are flex fuel vehicles still rated the same as gas burners. The Volt is rated at nearly 100 miles per gal. for the first 100 miles. GM can say this because they count the electric only miles. By that logic an E85 SUV getting 20 miles per gal. would need to burn almost 7 gal. of E85 to burn one gal. of gasoline. So it would follow that if CAFE is only counting gallons of gasoline then an E85 fueled SUV getting 140 miles per gal. of gasoline would seem to be more then inside the CAFE standards. Or is this yet another case of the federal government all having there heads up there asses and refusuing to ask for a light?
P.S. any thoughts on how to pay for road improvements since nobody will be buying gasoline anymore and hence not paying road tax?
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