The article, coming from the corn state of Iowa, seems to play fast and loose with what the study actually found.
First, it quotes an unamed study saying that "doubling or tripling the amount of ethanol usually blended into gasoline improved mileage for three of four cars tested." Only later in the article does it mention that this study was "sponsored" by the government and the American Coalition for Ethanol. (ACE is an ethanol lobbying group.) Sorry, but I can't place a great deal of faith in a study run by a lobbying group and the (highly political) DOE without a few more details of how the study was conducted.
The second study by the Pardee Rand grad school would seem to be a little more objective. Here's an excerpt from what USA Today said about the Rand study:
'Anything's better than ethanol blend E85, even ordinary gasoline, a new cost-benefit analysis of alternative fuels by researcher John Graham at the Pardee Rand Graduate School finds.
'Diesels scored highest, surprising even the researchers. "We were kind of expecting that hybrids would outperform diesels when we went into the study. It's close, but the advanced diesel" provides better performance and fuel economy for the price, he says.
'Compared to gasoline, a driver could spend as much as $1,600 more on fuel over a vehicle's life burning E85, a mix of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline, Graham calculates, while a diesel could save as much as $2,300.'
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