Paul:
Here in Oklahoma, Valero stations go to great lengths to inform their customers
that their fuel is 100% gasoline. Each pump has a placard on it describing the
benefits of using pure gas over E-10. So, right now, we have the luxury of
being able to get pure gas. How long that will last is anybody's guess, though.
Andy Walker
Edmond, OK
B382001600LRXFE (TAC #740)
B9006857LRX
---- Paul R Sheahan <sunbeamtiger@prodigy.net> wrote:
> Who is selling fuel with no ethanol?
>
> Paul
> Paul R Sheahan
>
> "Live every day as if it were your last"
> "Get busy living or get busy dying"
>
> --- On Tue, 12/1/09, Rense, Mark (GE Indust, ConsInd) <mark.rense@ge.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> From: Rense, Mark (GE Indust, ConsInd) <mark.rense@ge.com>
> Subject: [Tigers] More Joy From Our Gov'ment
> To: tigers@autox.team.net
> Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 11:30 AM
>
>
> I don't know about you, but my Tigers don't like E10 fuel, now we will
> be faced with E15 before too long. This is all due to the corn ethanol
> industry lobbying to bail themselves out of financial trouble.
>
>
> EPA Notifies Industry Group on Status of Ethanol Waiver Request
>
>
> Release date: 12/01/2009
>
> Contact Information: Deb Berlin, berlin.deb@epa.gov, 202-564-4914,
> 202-564-4355
>
>
> WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today
> announced that it expects to make a final determination in mid-2010
> regarding whether to increase the allowable ethanol content in fuel.
>
> In a letter sent today to Growth Energy - a bio fuels industry
> association that had asked EPA to grant a waiver that would allow for
> the use of up to 15 percent of ethanol in gasoline - the agency said
> that while not all tests have been completed, the results of two tests
> indicate that engines in newer cars likely can handle an ethanol blend
> higher than the current 10-percent limit. The agency will decide whether
> to raise the blending limit when more testing data is available. EPA
> also announced that it has begun the process to craft the labeling
> requirements that will be necessary if the blending limit is raised.
>
> In March 2009, Growth Energy requested a waiver to allow for the use of
> up to 15 percent ethanol in gasoline, an increase of five percent
> points. Under the Clean Air Act, EPA was required to respond to the
> waiver request by December 1, 2009. EPA has been evaluating the group's
> request and has received a broad range of public comments as part of the
> administrative rulemaking process. EPA and the Department of Energy also
> undertook a number of studies to determine whether cars could handle
> higher ethanol blends. Testing has been proceeding as quickly as
> possible given the available testing facilities.
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