The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: IsailedawayfromFR on April 26, 2017, 01:35:02 pm
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Ethanol’s rise over the past decade has given birth to an under-the-radar market: Americans who are willing to travel miles out of their way and pay significantly more per gallon for ethanol-free fuel.
Like locally sourced food or antibiotic-free chickens and eggs, so-called E0, or “pure gas,” has generated a cultlike following willing to pay a premium. More than 12,000 service stations across the U.S. and Canada now offer E0, according to pure-gas.org and other groups that track fuel trends.
While federal mandates make finding pure gas somewhat difficult — the vast majority of stations in the U.S. sell primarily E10, gasoline blended with about 10 percent ethanol — specialists say there is a dedicated market for the product. Some customers may hold fast to the notion that ethanol damages engines over time, or they may want to protest government policies that have forced increased amounts of ethanol into the gasoline supply.
Whatever the reason, the service station owners that sell pure gas, often at a per-gallon price 40 cents higher than E10, have found increasing demand.
“Consumers don’t buy things because retailers sell them. Retailers sell them because consumers want to buy them. If you see an outlet that’s selling pure gasoline, nonblended gasoline, it means there’s a significant demand in the market,” said R. Timothy Columbus, a Washington lawyer who represents the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America and the National Association of Convenience Stores.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/25/ethanol-free-fuel-demand-grows/
This shows how government intervention has disrupted the marketplace.
Ethanol-free fuel is produced at a lower cost than is fuel with ethanol, yet people who wish it are forced to pay more.
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yes, it's called premium gas in many stations in the midwest where I live. You pay more, but for my small engines, I must use premium. I used regular gas on several of them, and ended up taking every one of them in for repair. The repair guy said his business boomed after ethanol was introduced into regular gasoline.
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http://pure-gas.org/
I live in Illinois near Joliet and there are several places near me where I can get this gasoline. I ruined a chainsaw and weedeater before I finally figured out what was causing the problem. Now I go to the Joliet airport and get my no-ethanol gasoline for my small stuff.