On 11/16/2020 5:59 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 16:54:45 GMT, (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

T writes:
On 2020-11-15 08:15, Scott Lurndal wrote:
They do not sell ethanol free gas here and makes no sense that ethanol
free costs more.

It makes sense to everyone with even a slight understanding of
economics. Supply and Demand. Low demand, low supply,
little competition results in high
prices. High demand, High supply, competition results in low prices.

Ya and the good stuff is required to make the alcohol mixture,
so the good stuff has a demand.

Its' more that the refineries need to tool up to make the particular
blend. They have more production and storage capacity to make blends,
because that's what sells the most.
Except the blending isn't necessarily done at the refinery. The same
refinery makes the fuel for numerous companies, and the additive pack
is added after it leaves the refinery. In some cases it's at the "tank
farm" where a barrel of additive id dumped into the truck bedore it is
filled with gasoline - or a metered amount of ethanol is added before
filling with gasoline.


You cannot pipeline the ethanol blend unless you have new pipes or have
cleaned the old ones so it has to be trucked. I believe I mentioned
when they brought the blend in too a nearby area of PA, pumps were down
for about two weeks while they replaced tanks or cleaned out the old
ones as ethanol containing gasoline would remove any gunk deposited by
the ethanol free gasoline.