Why no E85 in Connecticut?

[GNBRETT]

Anyone know why? There is like 20 different locations in NY but none in CT. What dictates an area being supplied with E85?

 

[49-blues]

Good soil to grow the corn !

 

[GNBRETT]

NY aint got no good soil

 

[Otto J]

Call the Govenor

 

[49-blues]

The soil we import from PA is !

 

[tufbuick]

NY aint got no good soil

Yeah, what about all the Wineries out on Long Guy Land !

 

[GNBRETT]

Call the Govenor

Arent u the Mayor, oh nevermind thats Chillies

 

[murphinator]

I feel your pain , none in Maine or the next state over either (NH) I only mess around with some blends for now since I have to go to Mass to get it.

What kills me up here is that there is a huge terminal 45 min from me (Auburn/safe handling) where all the bulk ethanol comes into the state to blend into all the pumps

I have watched mass go from 1 to 3 stations in the last 2 years and you are right next to NY that has many stations - all it will take is a station operator just over the border to put in a station you would think. you are in an e85 sandwich so it should happen soon for you...

there are significant tax breaks for selling ethanol fuels , thats why you see e10 so prevalent.

I do believe you have a rockett brand fuel vendor though in CT and can buy it by the 55 drum though

New England definately gets the short end of the stick, pretty much all of the states in the lower 48 that dont carry it are in NE , personally I have just worked on getting educated on the fuel so when its available I can be good to go

 

[BEATAV8]

When it does arrive, be sure to keep your alky kit on the car. You'll be very happy when you see what E85 and Methanol can do when they play together.

 

[novaderrik]

there is no E85 in your area because no gas station owner has seen that there is enough of a demand to justify the costs.

 

[GNBRETT]

Well I counted 23 E85 gas stations in NY. NY is 10 times larger then CT. How much is E85 per gallon? I guess one could buy a few 55 gallon drums but that would get old fast.

 

[GNBRETT]

there is no E85 in your area because no gas station owner has seen that there is enough of a demand to justify the costs.

I dont think thats it at all. CT is one of the most densely populated states in the nation and one of the wealthiest. DOT uses them for their vehicles and flexfuel is popular in many places and would be here as well.

 

[BEATAV8]

Hopefully E85 will show up for you before this happens:

Former Oil Exec Predicts $5-a-Gallon Gas by 2012, Energy Shortages by Decade's End - FoxNews.com

 

[evotuner]

I live in Iowa, there is an ethanol plant 2 miles from my house. Still a pita to find E85 around here.

 

[88 CuttyClassic]

because e85 is catching on as good a HD DVD vs blu ray

 

[GNBRETT]

Yeah, what about all the Wineries out on Long Guy Land !

or maybe plum island where lyme disease was created

 

[moooven6]

because e85 is catching on as good a HD DVD vs blu ray

lol

 

[GNBRETT]

because e85 is catching on as good a HD DVD vs blu ray

well MN has 353 of them. id be happy in CT had one on each side of the state

 

[88 CuttyClassic]

i already hear they are pushing away from it..they are finding out e85 is worse (the whole process) for the environment than gasoline. the gm flex car run like **** on it. not to mention its effect on food and food prices.

this is obviously is no good for those strictly interested in it for its performance application value but if you want to pay less money for groceries it would be great if it faded away.

 

[murphinator]

i already hear they are pushing away from it..they are finding out e85 is worse (the whole process) for the environment than gasoline. the gm flex car run like **** on it. not to mention its effect on food and food prices.

this is obviously is no good for those strictly interested in it for its performance application value but if you want to pay less money for groceries it would be great if it faded away.

e85 availibility is growing , the problem is big oil doesnt want people using high concentration ethanol fuels since they havent figured out how to get it to come out of oil wells in the middle east yet

since they havent got that figured out they have helped to propagate fear about the fuels attaching all the negatives of methanol to ethanol even though ethanol doesnt have the same corrosive properties

propagating the water in ethanol issue even though all US ethanol is mandated to be annhydrous unlike Brazil etc.. where they dont dry their ethanol but run hydrous instead

the media keeps bringing up the food vs fuel debate which has a lot of merit as long as corn is the primary item being fermented to produce ethanol but what they dont mention is all the other sources of ethanol they are trying to develop , anything that can be fermented can produce ethanol Brazil uses sugar cane we just need to develop crops of something that is not a food stock to get our ethanol from.... switch grass has been mentioned , give it some time they will come up with a viable source

if you are familiar at all with the process of fermentation as well as the process of removing crude oil from the ground , transporting it overseas to refineries , distributing it to the end consumer in either case its pretty hard to imagine that its worse for the environment no matter how hard special interests work to build up their fabrications - a little common sense goes a long way....

just think for a moment what it would be like to not have to constantly be fighting wars just to protect our interests in foreign oil and let opec fight their own battles , not saying its the only reason we fight wars but take a look at the countries we end up in Iraq , Kuwait ,etc.. what is their primary business ? hmmm....

I read a lot about ethanol so I will hopefully have all the truths and myths sorted out before its available in high concentraions in my state . I am not an activist but rather a performance enthusiast who initially just wanted to make more power but along the way discovered that ethanol fuels have a lot more going for them than just more power , I used to believe all the same things you do cutty - someone is trying to brainwash us all I tell ya !

0ne thing I have noticed reading lots of posts on lots of forums is that people running e85 are typically giddy with how good their results and experiences are while people posting all the negatives of it have never run the fuel themselves but rather are mentioning all the things they have heard about it