Sorrento_Dude's Blog

You can always buy your gas at those Wal-Mart gas stations... they cut the gas with 10% Ethanol and charge the same price as regular gasoline.. minus a couple of pennies to get you to buy their gas mixture.

Ethanol is worthwile, as its cheaper than gas by a dollar or two.. But no one in the us is selling straight etanol.. We are behind the times on this one..

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Signal it's only cheaper because of tax incentives and it's heavily subsidized. You've also been able to get E85 in farming states such as ND and IL for a while. Someone told me there was a station on the coast offering ethanol fuel, I don't know if it's just the oxygenated stuff with 10% or the E85 stuff your flex fuel vehicle can run on. I'll track him down and ask him. Ive also found mileage isn't that bad after a few driving cycles.

The 10% ethanol mixture isn't anything new it's a replacement for MTBE which was a replacement for Lead. Ethanol just replaces MTBE as safer non-carcinogenic oxygenator. According to federal law if they oxygenator the fuel with anything any more it has to be ethanol, although I don't see why they still need to put the stupid 10% stickers up still.

Wow, I truly appreciate all the debate about why ethanol is cheaper and how much better LP would be. But that Doesn't really help much with my hunt for ethanol.