On 4/30/2014 6:29 AM, jim wrote:
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100% gasoline is hard to find because motorists
won't pay the extra price. It has nothing to do
with federal renewable fuel mandates. If the
EPA allowed more ethanol to be blended with
gasoline, motorists would buy more than the
mandates require.


If it were price alone, there would be such a clamor E85 would be far
more advanced than it is. As is, even where it is available there's
lagging demand despite the price differential and the increase in
flex-fuel vehicles that can use it.

And, that minor difficulty on the supply side that the blenders have no
choice but to put the vast majority of product out to meet the RFS as
there's no other gasoline-compatible product out there at the moment
that qualifies as the "R" part in RFS.

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