The Daily Background

Have you checked out the Kick the Oil Habit Road Trip yet? It’s run by The Center for American Progress (the same thinktank that runs the excellent ThinkProgress.org blog). Three guys are taking a cross-country trip fueled only by E85, which is a fuel that consists of 85% American-made clean burning ethanol (corn oil), and 15% gasonline.

They’re doing it to raise awareness for the campaign to encourage big oil companies to set up more E85 filling stations accross the country (there are only a few hundred right now).

There are currently more than 4 million Americans driving around in flex-fuel vehicles that can be powered by either the cleaner burning ethanol mixture, or regular dirty old gasoline, but most people don’t know about it and don’t have E85 filling stations near them.

To learn more about E85, and find out what you can do, visit KickTheOilHabit.org, or check out the Flex-Fuel Wikipedia entry for a list of vehicles that can be powered by E85 (you may even be driving one without knowing it).

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