Ethanol-free gas stations

[luv2travel]

Does anyone know of an ethanol-free gas station anywhere in our immediate area (Frisco, Plano, Allen, McKinney)??? It seems like these would be easier to find, but maybe I'm wrong!! . Thanks in advance!

[AGH]

They don't exist inside the 9 county EPA attainment area. 9 North Texas counties are all mandated to have 10% Ethanol in the gas formulation as part of EPA's attempt to reduce pollution levels.

For distribution simplification I think you will find even the counties just outside the attainment areas still have the same formulation. You will have to get way outside the attainment areas to find the non-Ethanol blends.

http://www.tceq.texas.gov/airquality/sip/dfw/dfw-status

[J.R.]

Oklahoma

[OKTX]

Yeah it sucks. And now the ethanol lobby is pushing hard to bring the blend up to 15%. While modern engines run 10% OK, they were not designed to handle 15%. Car manufacturers are threatening to void warranties on vehicles that run 15%.

Ethanol leaves consumers stranded

EPA has continued to ignore significant contrary evidence that shows E15 can cause engine damage, and that mound of evidence is growing. The Coordinating Research Council just released a study that shows E15 can cause engine damage even in new cars.

Ethanol is a sham. It doesn't make money, is economically nonviable even with increased consumption models, consumes more energy than it produces and only serves the corn growers with government subsidies.

Probably the purest example of government waste we have today.

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[mrwo1]

Even the ones that claim they don't probably do.

[J.R.]

15% ethanol will decimate boat engines (older ones), 10% is bad enough. Scam.

[AGH]

Originally Posted by OKTX

Yeah it sucks. And now the ethanol lobby is pushing hard to bring the blend up to 15%. While modern engines run 10% OK, they were not designed to handle 15%. Car manufacturers are threatening to void warranties on vehicles that run 15%.

Ethanol leaves consumers stranded



Ethanol is a sham. It doesn't make money, is economically nonviable even with increased consumption models, consumes more energy than it produces and only serves the corn growers with government subsidies.

Probably the purest example of government waste we have today.

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Add on top of that the fact that corn is the least efficient way to produce Ethanol and you have basically farm subsidies that inflate the cost to consumers for foods produced from corn.

Both sugar cane and switchgrass are considerably better and cost less to produce than corn and produce Ethanol without using as much energy or water.

Corn based Ethanol is the biggest scam ever crammed down our throats by the US government.

[penguin]

Here's the Texas list:

http://pure-gas.org/index.jsp?stateprov=TX

If you climb back up that URL, you can find the equivalent list for any state in the country, or in Canada.

A little update on the sorry politics of the ethanol racket:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/op...tner.html?_r=4





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