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GM Offers LA Drivers E85 Ethanol for 85 Cents a Gallon Couple of quick points to Carcrazy1234 from a GM employee (me) who works in the biofuels area. Ethanol is a renewable resource that doesn't "run out." Even today's corn-based ethanol, which many like to bash because it is supposedly taking food off our tables (that's not true either)isn't like petroleum that is a finite resource renewable. That's why GM pushes E85 - an ethanol based fuel that has just enough gasoline added to help start the engine on cold days. Californians, of which I was one in the '80s, value clean air. E85 today reduces greenhouse gases by at least 23 percent compared with just running gasoline, according to an analysis by Argonne National Laboratory. Next generation ethanol - we like the folks from Coskata who can make it from practically any carbon-containing feedstock - will reduce GHG by up to 84 percent, according to Argonne. E85 is not GM's only play but one of five areas we are sinking significant engineering resources. We are trying to make the internal combustion engine more efficient; we are quickly catching up on hybrids; we're moving on plug-in electrics and fuel cells (there is a demo fleet in CA), but even if all those technologies were ready (and affordable) today, it will take years to get all the cars on the road replaced by these technologies. So ethanol -- specifically E85 -- makes the most sense since there are already more than 6 million vehicles on the road today that can use it. Finding it isn't always easy -- that's true -- by there is a website, www.E85Fuel.com, that lists stations by address in the city and state where they are located. Should be several more stations in SoCal by the end of the year.