Is ethanol 85 fuel safe for 2001 jeep cherokee laredoes?

Question

Is ethanol 85 fuel safe for 2001 jeep cherokee laredoes?

Answer 1

,, no, it erodes the injectors and all the seals and it can cause pitting in the steel and it corrodes the exhaust system. Get an avalanche 2006 or newer.they are designed for e-85.

Answer 2

As to you question. Not without modifaction to the engine

  To the statement about bio-fuels causing deforestation in Brazil. How is Making fuel from Iowa corn causing deforestation in Central and South America? Wake up people!!!!! There are people in this world who profit off of your fears do not listen to them

Answer 3

Technically any car can run on E85.  BUT..........you need to have a mechanic install a different ECM electronic control module on your cars engine.  AND.......he needs to install new rubber hoses, seals and gaskets which will not corrode if there is a high concentration of Ethanol.

Answer 4

Do you realise what using Ethanol stands for ,,if you did you would not be asking this question under Environment

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The irony here is that the growing eagerness to slow climate change by using biofuels and planting millions of trees for carbon credits has resulted in new major causes of deforestation, say activists. And that is making climate change worse because deforestation puts far more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire world's fleet of cars, trucks, planes, trains and ships combined.

"Biofuels are rapidly becoming the main cause of deforestation in countries like Indonesia, Malaysia and Brazil," said Simone Lovera, managing coordinator of the Global Forest Coalition, an environmental NGO based in Asunción, Paraguay. "We call it 'deforestation diesel'," Lovera told IPS.

Oil from African palm trees is considered to be one of the best and cheapest sources of biodiesel and energy companies are investing billions into acquiring or developing oil-palm plantations in developing countries. Vast tracts of forest in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and many other countries have been cleared to grow oil palms. Oil palm has become the world's number one fruit crop, well ahead of bananas.

Biodiesel offers many environmental benefits over diesel from petroleum, including reductions in air pollutants, but the enormous global thirst means millions more hectares could be converted into monocultures of oil palm. Getting accurate numbers on how much forest is being lost is very difficult.

The FAO's State of the World's Forests 2007 released last week reports that globally, net forest loss is 20,000 hectares per day -- equivalent to an area twice the size of Paris. However, that number includes plantation forests, which masks the actual extent of tropical deforestation, about 40,000 hectares (ha) per day, says Matti Palo, a forest economics expert who is affiliated with the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Costa Rica.

"The half a million ha per year deforestation of Mexico is covered by the increase of forests in the U.S., for example," Palo told IPS.

National governments provide all the statistics, and countries like Canada do not produce anything reliable, he said. Canada has claimed no net change in its forests for 15 years despite being the largest producer of pulp and paper. "Canada has a moral responsibility to tell the rest of the world what kind of changes have taken place there," he said.

Plantation forests are nothing like natural or native forests. More akin to a field of maize, plantation forests are hostile environments to nearly every animal, bird and even insects. Such forests have been shown to have a negative impact on the water cycle because non-native, fast-growing trees use high volumes of water. Pesticides are also commonly used to suppress competing growth from other plants and to prevent disease outbreaks, also impacting water quality.

Plantation forests also offer very few employment opportunities, resulting in a net loss of jobs. "Plantation forests are a tremendous disaster for biodiversity and local people," Lovera said. Even if farmland or savanna are only used for oil palm or other plantations, it often forces the local people off the land and into nearby forests, including national parks, which they clear to grow crops, pasture animals and collect firewood. That has been the pattern with pulp and timber plantation forests in much of the world, says Lovera.

Ethanol is other major biofuel, which is made from maize, sugar cane or other crops. As prices for biofuels climb, more land is cleared to grow the crops. U.S. farmers are switching from soy to maize to meet the ethanol demand. That is having a knock on effect of pushing up soy prices, which is driving the conversion of the Amazon rainforest into soy, she says. Meanwhile rich countries are starting to plant trees to offset their emissions of carbon dioxide, called carbon sequestration. Most of this planting is taking place in the South in the form of plantations, which are just the latest threat to existing forests. "Europe's carbon credit market could be disastrous," Lovera said.

The multi-billion-euro European carbon market does not permit the use of reforestation projects for carbon credits. But there has been a tremendous surge in private companies offering such credits for tree planting projects. Very little of this money goes to small land holders, she says. Plantation forests also contain much less carbon, notes Palo, citing a recent study that showed carbon content of plantation forests in some Asian tropical countries was only 45 percent of that in the respective natural forests. Nor has the world community been able to properly account for the value of the enormous volumes of carbon stored in existing forests.

One recent estimate found that the northern Boreal forest provided 250 billion dollars a year in ecosystem services such as absorbing carbon emissions from the atmosphere and cleaning water. The good news is that deforestation, even in remote areas, is easily stopped. All it takes is access to some low-cost satellite imagery and governments that actually want to slow or halt deforestation. Costa Rica has nearly eliminated deforestation by making it illegal to convert forest into farmland, says Lovera.

Paraguay enacted similar laws in 2004, and then regularly checked satellite images of its forests, sending forestry officials and police to enforce the law where it was being violated. "Deforestation has been reduced by 85 percent in less than two years in the eastern part of the country," Lovera noted. The other part of the solution is to give control over forests to the local people. This community or model forest concept has proved to be sustainable in many parts of the world. India recently passed a bill returning the bulk of its forests back to local communities for management, she said.

However, economic interests pushing deforestation in countries like Brazil and Indonesia are so powerful, there may eventually be little natural forest left. "Governments are beginning to realize that their natural forests have enormous value left standing," Lovera said. "A moratorium or ban on deforestation is the only way to stop this."

This story is part of a series of features on sustainable development by IPS and IFEJ - International Federation of Environmental Journalists.

© 2007 IPS - Inter Press Service



Source: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/...

Answer 5

Probably not.  Pretty much all vehicles can run on a small amount of E85 mixed with regular gas.  They already put about 10% ethanol in gas.  I put about 1/2 a tank of E85 in my 2002 Ford Explorer and I didn't have any problems.  After that, I went ahead and bought a Nissan Titan, because they all run on E85 now.  Check out this link to see a list of flex fuel vehicles.

Answer 6

yes. just talk to sales at flextek.com or other and they'll tell you what wiring harness best fits your car. it'll take 30 minutes to install yourself, then you can use gas or ethanol.

you also may want to go to a high performance shop and ask them if they can adjust your fuel-air ratio another way.

change your fuel filter after the first 500 miles cos the ethanol acts like a cleaner and will clean out all the gasoline build-up.

p.s. no, it does NOT erode your engine!

Answer 7

Technically, yes it is safe, however there have been studies that show that burning E85 fuel in a gasoline engine will cause premature and accelerated deterioration of the engine due to the byproduct produced when burning the E85.

Answer 8

I have checked three different websites and none of them list your vehicle.

Sorry!

This site will tell you how to read your VIN to make sure: http://www.e85fuel.com/information/vin.p...

One of the biggest factors in burning E85 is that Ethanol and Aluminum do not work and play well together. If you have an Aluminum fuel tank, intake manifold or fuel lines the concentrated ethanol in high concentrations can damage them (10% or less is fine see bottom link. )

So the flex fuel vehicles eliminate aluminum from the fuel system or in some cases use a very special alloy.

Answer 9

You can use some E85 in it as long as you keep the overall ethanol percentage in the tank under 50%.  I blend about 30% ethanol into my Ford Focus, which is not flex fuel.  It runs fine on 30% ethanol.  I'll add 2 or 3 gallons of E85 to my tank when the tank is 3/4 full with gasoline.  If you cross E50 your check engine light may come on but it won't hurt your car.  It will run the same.  I have been adding E85 to my non-flex fuel Ford Focus for 2 years now and never had a single problem.

Answer 10

No.

The only Chrysler products that were flex-fuel (E85) capable in 2001 were the minivans:

http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/afv/afdc...

You can spend a lot of money and reprogram your injector pulse width to increase by 31% or you can sell the Laredo, and buy a vehicle that handles it already.  (<---- much better idea, and will save you a ton of money)

Modify the year on the above link and you can see every E85 compatible vehicle ever made.

Good luck!  I admire you trying to make a difference in our dependence on gasoline, foreign oil and choose to use a renewable fuel that has a more positive impact on global warming.

Answer 11

Don't run E85 in a car not designed for it.  E85 has less energy per gallon than regular gas, so the computer will be injecting too little fuel.  This will "lean out" the mix terribly.  This will make NOx emissions like CRAZY (which kinda defeats the purpose of burning a "green" fuel), will create a lot of detonation (spark knock) and could even damage the engine.