Sals, Don't take this wrong, but the developement of E-85 is growing because the public wants it. We have developed a couple of retail stations here in Phx and 4 more will be up by late summer. I don't like the stuff either, but politics demands that we run around like sheep and moan about the mid-eastern oil companys etc. Venezuela has our wallets tied up right now. So things are not as they seem. My "Paying" job as a contractor for Valero and Excel Energy is for hydrogen fuel resources. I am with you on this. There are so many up-start problems we are face because of the deterioration of the components we can use affordably. We will get this down. Unfortunately, we are a way off to achieve this problem's solution. Yeah, we can transport the stuff with the same "loss" as petroleum based stuff, especially if it's piped. I am also with you in opening the reserves up in Alaska etc. Until we get our favorite sons out of office that have created the political rhetoric, We have to stay diligent in finding "our" solutions to make our rides the best they can be. Stay diligent in your quest for answers becuase it looks like it's going to be the Hot Rod community that is going to have the answers eventually. Thanks for the insight to what you're going thru over there.