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Why do you get fewer miles per gallon from a gallon of ethanol than from a gallon of gasoline?
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∙ 16y ago
Gasoline enriched with ethanol contains more oxygen - so it burns cleaner and much faster than regular gasoline. Which means it increase the power of your car.
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How many miles per gallon less with ethanol enhanced gasoline?
Expect around a 15% decline in fuel mileage over conventional gasoline. Ok, so if I'm paying $4.00 / gallon for 10 % ethanol gas and loosing 15 % mileage that means if I can find 100 % gasoline with no ethanol at $4.60 / gallon I'm getting basically the same thing. So if I pay $4.10 / gallon for real gas without ethanol, I just saved $.50 / gallon over the ethanol low output gas. This should make shopping allot easier, as long as the stations are required to post how much ethanol they are selling versus real gas.
Does ethanol fuel decrease fuel economy?
Here's the thing: Ethanol has less energy per gallon than gasoline and diesel, so for a given power output an engine will use more ethanol than it would have used diesel or gasoline. Miles per gallon will be poorer. But that's not the whole story. Ethanol - being considered more eco-friendly - is often a lot less expensive than diesel and gasoline. So even if you're using more of it, the cost-per-mile can be lower than for gasoline or diesel.
What is the car rate of gasoline consumption in miles per gallon if it is 425 miles on 10.8 gallons of gasoline?
425/10.8 = 39.35 miles per gallon (rounded)
Will your 1997 ford explorer run on ethanol with no changes?
Most if not all existing gasoline powered engines can operate without modification on gasoline containing up to 10% ethanol (E10). Some flexible fuel vehicles (FFV) are specifically designed to operate on gasoline containing up to 85% ethanol (E85). One consideration though, is that you will spend more to operate a vehicle on any fuel that contains ethanol. While the vehicle will run cleaner, ethanol blended gasoline has a lower energy content, and therefore will result in a 2%-3% reduction in miles-per-gallon; you will be filling up more to go the same number of miles.
The Morrison's car uses one gallon of gasoline for every 28 miles if gasoline costs 1.50 per gallon how many miles can they drive if they spend 24 on gasoline?
448 miles is the answerheres the computation:$24 - cost for the trip$1.50 per gallon of Gas28 miles per gallon$24/$1.50= 16 gallons16 gallons X 28 miles per gallon = 448 miles
How can you calculate miles per gallon of gasoline?
Divide the number of miles travelled by the number of gallons of gasoline used.
How many miles per gallon does a 1999 gm safari van get?
20 - 23 mpg highway using REAL gasoline 17 - 20 mpg highway using 10% ethanol 12 - 16 mpg city using REAL gasoline 10 - 14 mpg city using 10% ethanol
What is a mpg on a car?
MPG stand for Miles Per Gallon, it tells you the average of how many miles you can go with a gallon of gasoline
What is 8 mpg?
8 miles per gallon of gasoline.
A car has a mileage rating of 38 miles per gallon of gasoline How many miles can the car travel on 76.5 liters of gasoline?
a ar has a mileage rating of 30 miles per gallon of gasoline how many mile can the car travel on 76.5 liters of gasoline
If you have 30 miles per gallon how many miles do you get for one liter of gas?
30 miles per gallon equates to about 7.925 miles per liter of gasoline.
what is 360 to 12 gallons on gasoline?
It is 30 miles per gallon.
