On 4/30/2014 5:50 PM, jim wrote:
David R. Birch wrote:
On 4/30/2014 3:17 PM, jim wrote:
David R. Birch wrote:
On 4/30/2014 6:29 AM, jim wrote:

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.

?!?

When unblended regular gas used to be available around here at the same
time as scam gas(10% alcohol), the scam gas cost more than unblended
regular. No one used scam gas until it became the only option.

Funny how you remember things the way you want them to be.

No. I'm not like you.

I didn't buy scam gas until unblended regular was no longer available

You are not most people.

No, I'm only me, who, like most people around here, wasn't willing to
pay for the more expensive scam gas. I'm not talking about national
trends, I'm talking about right here, SE Wisconsin, where so few were
willing to pay extra that the more expensive scam gas became mandatory.

You are trying to pretend most
people did the same as you when the evidence clearly
shows that they did the opposite.

I haven't seen any of your alleged evidence that applies to SE Wisconsin.

Ethanol sales stayed way ahead of mandates from 2005 to
2012. In 2007, Congress changed the mandates because sales
had already grown to 2012 mandated levels.
By 2012 ethanol sales had grown to 10% of market.
The EPA regulations do not allow it to grow any larger.
If the EPA allowed more ethanol to be sold the sales would again
grow larger than the mandated level. All of that is because people
buy the cheapest gas. Ethanol blends are cheaper and higher
percentage of ethanol blends would cost even less.

Now explain the specific reason why SE Wisconsin was under different
rules that the rest of the state.

In most of the country you can find pure gas available, but
since the demand is very low only a few stations carry it.

Not in SE Wisconsin. Explain why.

The small number of outlets is because very few drivers will
pay extra for pure gasoline.

We never had to, scam gas was always more expensive than unblended, up
to a nickle a gallon more.

David