Comments on: GM invests in 'trash to ethanol' start-up

General Motors buys undisclosed share in the cellulosic ethanol company Coskata to bring E85 fuel to market faster.

[theBike45]

Nathanael Greene's out of touch

If Greene thinks that GM's dual hybrid, flex fuel, E-flex game-changer and Saturn plug-in are greenwashing, he deserves to be ignored by anyone
interested in the environment. He's obviously one of those innocents brainwashed by the fictitious documentary about the EV-1. Just ask him his opinion of the EV-1 and I suspect that will verify my suspicians that he's anti-GM.

[joehohn]

E85 in all Vehicles?

If GM was so big into biofuels, why don't they put Flex Fuel engines into all their vehicles? The actual cost to modify the computerized fuel injection system at manufacturing time is under $100. It's too bad the kickback from the oil companies for not putting in Flex Fuel compatible engines have more to do with "greed" than simply trying to be "green".

[open-mind]

No, But Several

From the web site e85vehicles.com:

* Chevrolet Impala 3.5L & 3.9L
* Chevy Express 5.3L
* Chevrolet Uplander 3.9 L
* Chevrolet Silverado 5.3
* Chevrolet Avalanche 5.3L
* Chevrolet Suburban 5.3L
* Chevrolet Tahoe 5.3L
* Chevrolet Vans 5.3L
* GMC Yukon 5.3
* GMC Sierra 5.3L
* GMC Savanna 5.3 Liter
* GMC Savanna 5.3 Liter Cargo Van
* GMC Yukon 5.3L


As usual, crooked anti-green GM is not doing enough. Just look at Toyota's E85 list:

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OK, Toyota's list may be empty, but they did create the Prius ... the green-messiah of automobiles. Hence everything they do is more green and wonderful by association.

[Someone-else]

Not much of new

some Latin-American countries use ethanol car since the 1960s and almost all new cars are flex-fuel since about 2004. But it's good to see other countries using it and making it better...

[zappedone]

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