On 4/30/2014 3:11 PM, jim wrote:
dpb wrote:
On 4/30/2014 12:04 PM, jim wrote:
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What you are observing is not the effects of govt policy.
What you are seeing are the effects of market forces. If
2 stations decided to sell 100% gasoline there wouldn't
be enough business to keep them both alive. That is how your
town got down to having only one station selling straight gas.

It's market forces as directed by government policy -- the one follows
the other owing to (yet again) that there are reqm'ts on renewables
overall and hence, to meet that requirement it's essentially mandatory
that the blenders use it.

Don't see how it can be made any clearer but the law/rule is the rule.

It's a small town but I suspect it would be possible for a second
station to also survive altho the one is one of the larger in town in
terms of number of pumps plus they're an ag distributor in bulk to
producers. I believe they also have contracts w/ various industrial
users as well altho I've not asked Don directly.

The difficulty on a larger scale is being able to get the product in
much higher volumes because then the RFS couldn't be met unless the
blenders just bought the renewable product and stockpiled it instead of
using it.

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Now you are getting desperate and making up stories.
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No, just misstated -- I had simply forgotten that indeed the law does
mandate the relative percentages/levels be set as well as an overall.
But, it doesn't really at this point change anything as the limits for
cellulosic for 2014 are 17 million (with a 'm') out of 15 billion (with
a 'b'). Total online production at the moment can't even meet that level.

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