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Originally Posted by Merk
I pay only $.0485 per kwh (yes $.0485) for the next 3 years. The county I live in lets the commissioners seek bids for electric power. The price is lock in for 3 years.
What would the price be for corn if it wasn't for the ethanol plants???
No one is telling you that you have to grow corn.
The last fill up on E85 I paid $1.70 a gallon. For me it is cheaper (cost per mile) to run E85 than is is to run E10 gas. Non ethanol gas around here is $.40 to $.50 a gallon higher.
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No one is telling me
yet to grow corn, and @ 72, I prolly should sell my old vintage tractors/equipment for scrap, and sit on the porch and let nature take it's course.
But I enjoy being productive and doing what I always did, although at a much reduced acreage.
The thought if sitting in a chair playing board games is not my idea of retirement, but I'm sure all will have different ideas.
As a good steward of the soil, it is advised to rotate crops, IE: soybeans/corn, or other crops.
My son has a late model pickup truck that can use E85 fuel as per manufacture.
For him, the reduced mileage/power of E85 does not pencil out vs the reduced fuel cost of E85.
Cost ways, it it is better to use just regular E10 which is commonly available.