E85 Ethanol as an Alternative to Gasoline; are Flex Fuels the Answer?

Ford is planning on ramping up production on their mini-SUV escape models and GM has announced producing flex fuel models, which can also run on either gasoline or E85. If the major US Automakers can agree on E85 and make cars, trucks and SUVs to run on E85, then we can bring it from Midwest US Ethanol Refineries to East Coast via rail and CA to be used. These markets have many environmentally conscious folks who would partake in a change for the common good. Is it possible with the tremendous infrastructure requirements to get all this E85 to market? Will we have enough?

We must also allow for pre-established fuel dealers to offer it; that is to say those fuel cards locations, Sunoco, BP and Travel Centers with incentives as pre-described in Lance Winslow