General Motors kicks off E85 Fall Fuel for Thought Tour

General Motors is kicking off its E85 Fall Fuel for Thought Tour. The first stop of the E85 vehicle and promotion tour is slated for Pittsburgh, at Carnegie-Mellon University, where Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities, Sheetz Inc., the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and GM will engage in promotion and biofuels mythbusting.

The Tour picks up from the E85 Days of Summer Tour, which was an 85-day promotional tour for the GM flex-fuel vehicles. GM continues to push hard on promotion of E85 and flex-fuel vehicles as an alternative to the imposition of stricter CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) standards which is under consideration for inclusion in this year’s energy bill.  GM’s position is that adoption of E85 will achieve the same emissions result as revisions to CAFE standards, but result in far lower costs for automakers.

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