Emissions from vehicles running on 85 percent ethanol-based fuel are just as harmful to humans as those from vehicles that run on regular gasoline, a new stud suggests. The number of deaths E85 emissions could cause is equal to or greater than those caused by petroleum-based fuel.
The study was directed by Stanford Associate Professor
Mark Jacobson, at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. "It's true that ethanol does decrease some pollutants, but it also increases some others," Jacobson says.
Study: E85 emissions could cause as many deaths as gasoline, or more