With food and oil prices surging to multi-year highs, consumers have seen their finances stretched even farther as they face commodity price inflation at the pump and in the supermarket.
But even those who want to sell E85 face problems just getting it to the pump, because there isn't a distribution system in place for ethanol like there is for regular gasoline.
In the face of these grim statistics, OPEC decided last month to pump 1.5m fewer barrels a day (about 2% of global consumption), starting from November 1st.