Ethanol—A Renewable Energy Source

Potential impact on human health and the environment

The principal advantages of E85 use to health and the environment are as follows:

• One of the benefits of using E85 is a reduction in the amount of some pollutants emitted into the air. The type of tailpipe emissions from FFV’s burning E85 will be similar to those same vehicles burning pure gasoline. But the amount of certain types of emissions will be less. All FFV’s meet the required government emissions standards.
• Evaporative emissions, those that are given off from the car while it is sitting, are generally less for E85 vehicles than pure gasoline vehicles.

Most of the information found above was provided by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, www.nesea.org.