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15% ethanol -- bill in congress to prohibit...read on....


Mike Self

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I believe that, even if the price were virtually the same as "real" gas, that almost every retailer will choose to sell the absolute cheapest gas he/she can lay hands on, trying to beat the competing station across the street by a penny.

If E15 becomes the de-facto cheapest gas, because _most_ cars 12 years old and newer can use it, then it wil become the choice of almost all retailers.

In my city of almost a million population, "real" gas is offered at 2, count 'em, two stations. Once they succumb to price pressures from competitors, they will be gone. What then? AvGas? Buy barrels of race fuel?

David

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Ethanol is not cheap, and is only priced less at your local station due to government intervention and subsidy. "Cheap ethanol" is an oxymoron, as is "green ethanol", at least in it's current form. The drive toward ethanol is more due to an ethnocentric idea of where we want our energy to come from than it is about cost effectiveness. Most who claim to be educated on the matter and tell you otherwise are either confused by statistical data or lying.

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Agreed. The decision to put ethanol in our fuels is a political decision, not a scientific one. It costs far more in BTUs to produce, transport, and distribute than it offsets. Then there is the cost to agriculture, water, and food consumers to consider. Not a good idea in any way - for the US, at this time. We're not Brazil.

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