On 11/9/2019 6:52 AM, trader_4 wrote:
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What extra cost of maintenance? Gas with ethanol works perfectly fine in
motor vehicles. There are issues with small engines. And thanks for
bringing this up. Like Danny said, your super hero Trump is increasing
the ethanol mandate, ...

What "issues" are those for anything built in this century?

And Trump is _NOT_ raising the blending mandate level, simply making
some effort to enforce the actual law as passed "way back when" long
before he was around. The use of the small refinery loophole has
allowed refiners to not live up to the mandate.

Trump actually hasn't done much at all to really help the
situation...it's mostly been let slide as all politicians generally do,
other issues and competing interests cause enough pain to not make it
worth the effort to stick to one particular cause through thick 'n thin.

As far as being available, that's purely up to the local dealers as to
whether they want to carry the product or not...there's one here in town
who advertises it strongly but it's at quite a high price premium. I
guess there are enough that he keeps going but as Cindy points out at
least for his price differential there's no question ethanol blend is
the MP$ winner by a significant margin. Places with more competition
_might_ have a somewhat closer margin, that I have no data for.

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