Here we go again with gas prices

[PJgunner]

Well, I have two trips, possibly three that I absolutely connot get out of this year. I cringe at what that Ford Explorer is going to cost, especially on the trip to Houston Texas for the Christmas holidays.
I like the idea of a flex fuel vehicle, but the Explorer is not and neither is the Toyota pick up. In double checking the Toyota's handbook, any form of alcohol based fuel with more than 10 percent alcohol is a total no no. They don't even recommend fuel with MBTE in it and we're forced to use that stuff in the winter.
I guess I could drive 55 MPH on the trips (Seems like we'd never get there) and double nickels may be once again mandatory anyway. Almost all the way to either place the speed limits are 75 MPH. I'll most likely split the dofference and do 65.
I seriously wonder just what would it take to convert both vehicles to flex fuel? We have exactly one station in town selling E85 fuel. At first, it was $.40 a gallon less than regular gas, but as people started going there, they went up to where it's $.20 a gallon less than gasoline. Just more greed. For those that don't know, E85 is 85 percent alcohol and 15 percent gasoline.
If I remember my history lessons, during WW-2, the French distilled their own alcohol and converted their cars to run on that.
As long as the oil companies have the money they do, you will never see any relief from our representatives. We have the best government big business can buy.
Paul B.