Ethanol Rammed In Your Tank

Darth Cheney wrote:Looks like you tree hugging rubes couldn't do enough with ethanol so now it is being rammed down our throats. Only a handful of places in Sioux Falls serving non-welfare petroleum now.  What kind of government is it that decides what kind of fuel you can burn in your automobiles?  I hate these commies with a passion.

Darth Cheney wrote:Looks like you tree hugging rubes couldn't do enough with ethanol so now it is being rammed down our throats. Only a handful of places in Sioux Falls serving non-welfare petroleum now.  What kind of government is it that decides what kind of fuel you can burn in your automobiles?  I hate these commies with a passion.

Gomezz Adddams wrote:

Darth Cheney wrote:Looks like you tree hugging rubes couldn't do enough with ethanol so now it is being rammed down our throats. Only a handful of places in Sioux Falls serving non-welfare petroleum now.  What kind of government is it that decides what kind of fuel you can burn in your automobiles?  I hate these commies with a passion.

I tried to avoid this crap when I went to the Hills last week by gassing up in Murdo. Nope, nobody had non-ethanol available and my mpg just cratered. Coming back I just put enough in my tank to get me to Chamberlain where I knew I could get non-ethanol gas. I'm still getting non-ethanol at the BP station at 6th & Cleveland and the wife just gassed up at Sycamore HyVee with non-ethanol.

sodaknomad wrote:

Gomezz Adddams wrote:

Darth Cheney wrote:Looks like you tree hugging rubes couldn't do enough with ethanol so now it is being rammed down our throats. Only a handful of places in Sioux Falls serving non-welfare petroleum now.  What kind of government is it that decides what kind of fuel you can burn in your automobiles?  I hate these commies with a passion.

I tried to avoid this crap when I went to the Hills last week by gassing up in Murdo. Nope, nobody had non-ethanol available and my mpg just cratered. Coming back I just put enough in my tank to get me to Chamberlain where I knew I could get non-ethanol gas. I'm still getting non-ethanol at the BP station at 6th & Cleveland and the wife just gassed up at Sycamore HyVee with non-ethanol.

How much is the ethanol infusion? You do know who's doing this, don't you?

Gomezz Adddams wrote:Looks like it's going to be a region wide change affecting Nebraska, Iowa and the Dakotas.   

"Market watchers see the federal Renewable Fuels Standard and the efforts of the oil industry to squeeze more money out of a barrel of oil as factors in the octane shuffle."

http://journalstar.com/news/local/octane-change-not-a-bonanza-for-nebraska-ethanol-plants/article_58886924-e33a-531f-8993-fada55f7fa36.html

BladeRunner wrote:I saw this a couple of weeks ago when I drove my old '50s Chevy to town. I went to get gas and could only find %10 ethanol crap.

Very disappointing. I don't want to run that in that car.

And when it comes to the small engines I have on my acreage in my equipment, it's recommended to NOT use it either.

sodaknomad wrote:

BladeRunner wrote:I saw this a couple of weeks ago when I drove my old '50s Chevy to town. I went to get gas and could only find %10 ethanol crap.

Very disappointing. I don't want to run that in that car.

And when it comes to the small engines I have on my acreage in my equipment, it's recommended to NOT use it either.

A friend of mine helped you in your search.

http://pure-gas.org/extensions/map.html

"Instead, the pipeline company will ship an 84 octane unleaded along with the much-more-expensive 91 octane “premium” gasoline. Petroleum retailers said it would be possible to blend the premium fuel with the lower octane gasoline to create the regular unleaded currently available at the pumps. But doing that might increase the price by 30 to 40 cents a gallon at the pumps. Currently, regular unleaded gasoline without ethanol is about ten cents a gallon more expensive at most stations. "