E85 can help us reduce dependency on foreign oil. But, the current crop of flex fuel vehicles fall short in one critical measure - fuel economy. The current flex fuel engines are designed primarily as gas engines, ethanol is an afterthought. Compression ratios are too low to return decent economy when an owner actually can buy E85 to fill up. I wonder how happy these new flex fuel vehicle owners are going to be when they find out how poor their mpg is with E85?