According to the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition, there are no E85 fueling pumps in Orange County, California. In fact, most of the E85 pumps are centralized in the Midwest. And while the government has made plenty of noise recently about increasing the availability of E85, the reality is that it takes an estimated $200,000 to fit a gas station for that type of fuel option, a price tag gas station owners are likely to blanch at given the limited number of flex-fuel vehicles on the road. Of late, the CEOs of Chrysler Ford and General Motors have been lobbying aggressively for government assistance in making E85 more available around the nation, and with that, promising many more flex-fuel vehicles. Until the happens, however, flex-fuel vehicles will offer only a minimal impact on our oil consumption – and there’s no telling how successful adoption of E85 would be, even with a readily available supply, as the fuel is less efficient and at least as costly as regular gasoline.