EG-prince

The gain of using E85 is that you are using less oil, nagger. And global warming is real. Whether it is warming from human influence or not is still debateable, but the strongest case is for the human influence. In the past, seismic activity has been the largest influence on change in atmospheric carbon levels. Well there is still seismic activity on earth, and in addition to that, there is millions of tons of CO2 being released much much more quickly and sooner than it ever naturally would by humans, and that ---- has to go somewhere. Much is sequestered by the oceans and other bodies of water by direct diffusion and most of the rest by plants into carbon compounds. But it has been shown time and again that not all of this additional, new co2 can be sequestered by the natural processes of the earth.

As for the whole cooling thing, the world will eventually cool down. A lot. Like a global ice age. What will happen as the earth grows warmer and more and more CO2 builds up, photosynthesis will run rampant. There will be algal blooms covering the earth's oceans and massive plant growth all over the hot, steamy new earth. All this new photosynthesis will sequester "too much" of the atmospheric CO2 and cause a dramatic drop in the earth's temperature aka ice age. We are actually overdue for one right now, though I'm pretty sure its quite a time off in coming. This has happened many times before. There was actually one ice age that nearly resulted in the end of all life on earth. The entire earth was frozen over, with the only surviving organisms being bacteria and small photosynthetic organisms filtering light through the ice sheets covering the equator. The only thing that saved life on earth was a period of intense, world wide seismic activity resulting from a massive shift in the plates globally that threw enough carbon into the atmosphere to begin warming the earth again. True story. scary ---- really.
cue Jurassic Park music..."life finds a way"

MikeJ-2009

E85 also increases the costs of corn, which we um, feed ourselves with. Along with the massive government payments to farmers, I don't see E85 being a solution to ----, but while it's here and at least beneficial to my turbo honda, I'll use it.