Gas NOT Cheap renewable energy E85 ethonal only 1.49 in Grand Junction Colorado & Idaho Springs

Green car got 31 mpg coming into CO lets see how it does on e85. Western Gas stations offer E85 state wide.

Since settlers arrived in the 1880s until the 1960s, the main economic activity in the region was farming and cattle. Vast oil shale reserves were known to exist near Parachute, Colorado in the Piceance Basin. The oil embargoes of the 1970s and high gas prices resulted in major financial interest in the region. Exxon purchased rights and used Grand Junction as its seat of operations.

Grand Junction and the surrounding Grand Valley were prosperous in the 1970s and early 1980s largely because of oil shale. The United States, western Colorado in particular, has the largest known concentration of oil shale in the world, (according to the Bureau of Land Management) and holds an estimated 800 gigabarrels of recoverable oil, enough to meet U.S. demand for oil at current levels for 110 years. Known as the "Rock That Burns" the shale can be mined and processed to produce oil, although in the past it was significantly more expensive than conventional oil. Sustained prices above $95 per barrel, however, may make extraction economically attractive in the coming years. ExxonMobil was forced to pull out of the region because of lower oil prices, which led to economic hardship in the region.

The economic bust, known as "Black Sunday" (May 2, 1982) to the locals, started with a phone call from the President of Exxon to the then Governor of Colorado, Richard Douglas Lamm, stating that Exxon would cut its losses while retaining mining rights to the (then and currently) uneconomic oil. The economic bust was felt state wide, as Exxon had invested more than 5 billion USD in the state. Colorado historian Tom Noel observed "I think that was a definite turning point, and it was a reminder that we were a boom-and-bust state...There were parallels to the silver crash of 1893."[citation needed]

Today the economy of Grand Junction is more diverse and stable than it has been in the last 40 years. Currently, major contributors are health care, tourism, agriculture, livestock, and energy mining (gas and oil). Major oil companies have once again invested large amounts of money recently (within the last two years), due to recent increases in oil and natural gas prices.

Grand Junction is being discovered by the "nation's elite business and leisure travelers," according to Cleveland-based Flight Options, a private jet service that named Grand Junction as one of its clients' top ten destinations during December 2007, citing nearby Powderhorn Resort as an attraction.

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[platinum243125]

Can you run a gasoline engine off ethanol, or does it have to be flex fuel?

[switchgrassfuel]

@evgeshka00 If you have the right car with a high compression engine so you can take advantage of E85 105 octane you won't loose much efficiency. car manufactures that make flex fuel cars aren't putting high compression engines in the cars. they would almost be better with E85 only cars for fuel efficiency on E85. that would only work in certain area's. it is a grate fuel thou.

[crazykillas]

ethanol gets less mpg than gas does... over 40% less

[evgeshka00]

don't be foodled.

Ethanol has only about 2/3 the energy of gasoline.

f regular gas is $3.00/gallon you should pay $2.90 / gallon for E10 (10% ethanol). $2.13 / gallon for E85 (85% ethanol).

If regular gas is $2.00/gallon you should pay $1.93 / gallon for E10 (10% ethanol). $1.42 / gallon for E85 (85% ethanol).

Then you will be paying the same amount per mile driven.