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NewsChannel 10 Investigates: Effects of ethanol in gasoline

KFDA -- AMARILLO- A local gas station here in Amarillo has prices 40 to 50 cents higher than the competitors.

The Shell station on Western St. and I-40 had regular unleaded gas priced at $3.89 a gallon Friday.

Despite several nearby gas stations selling fuel at a considerably lower price, it doesn't appear to be impacting business.

"We have ethanol free fuel," owner Bryan Madison said.

He claims his station is one of only two in Amarillo that doesn't lace its fuel with ethanol, a substance he says is bad for engines.

"It's already shown to eat up rubber components of fuel hoses," he said.

It's not just happening with cars.

"Something has got to be done about these lawn mowers and weed eaters that are dying," he added.

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Martinman
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It's amazing the number of people that continue to post "No Fuel from Food!..." and other forms of misinformation on ethanol, that I see repeatedly posted here.

Ethanol is made from FEED corn, not TABLE corn. The starched used to make the ethanol, is the RESIDUAL starch leftover AFTER feed corn has been processed to remove the starch, in order to INCREASE the amount of protein from the FEED corn used to make livestock feed.

Any simple search of how the various distiller's grains are made, will verify that.
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tomok
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No Fuel from Food! No E15, No E10 and No Government Subsidies either! Effects of Ethanol in Gasoline is bad for the engine, for the consumer and for Barry's lousy, going nowhere economy. Shell has been an expensive fuel.
Whatever the size or shape of the vehicle, Produce and ‘Drive’ vehicles with high MPG, are very reliable, have a ‘reasonable’ cost and a good ‘value’ for the money. Consider using other forms of less expensive transportation to lower your cost, if possible!
The price of fuel at the pump is too high!
12/22/2012!
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DerHahn
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had a couple of stations here that had ethanol free gas but recently dropped it. just wasn't selling enough. good to see stations that are doing well with it.

although we had a better deal of just 10cents more, not enough people were using it.
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"You're going to get lower mileage with ethanol," he said. "You aren't going to notice it a lot with a 10 percent blend rate, but if you were running something like E-85 which is 85 percent ethanol, you'd see a 25 to 30 percent drop in gas mileage"

This is the sort of info that needs to be stressed!
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cashpayer
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For a list of some stations in the US and Canada that offer ethanol-free gas:

pure-gas . org.
Just click on your state and go from there.
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Ethanol was never a good alternative. Just a bonus subsidy for the corn-producing states, as if corn isn't in all our food anyway.
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To all of you that posted simply "ok". Just what is it that makes ethanol "ok"?
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and we already know that because we are paying attn.! dhan
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putting sugar in the engine is never a good idea
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Driving or drinking?
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and we know this to be true talk to anyone who repairs engines
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Already knew about the mileage issue...haven't had any other problems tho
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doh!
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It ruins engines.
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never tried it...never will
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Agreed! Ethenol free is the way to go.
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We don't need any stinkin' ethanol...
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Wish we could get ethanol free gas in this area.
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I would buy
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Get rid of ethanol. People don't want it. Save the corn for other products and food.
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This as been known for years
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ok
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... ruins engines.
See the film, King Korn.
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wow
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They should have listened to gas buddies for the last couple of years.
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wow
don't use it no food for fuel
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boldrph said, "so brazil can handle e100 but these whiners can't handle e10?"

I agree.

A lot of fear mongering going on here and I actually believe that we don't need to go to E15. No food for fuel.
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hes able to get away with it because its true
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Sounds like this gas station owner is making good money off of ethanol fears. I wonder how he's able to get away with it.
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Give me a chance to buy pure E0 gas at my neighborhood gas station and I'll vote with my gas dollars to show Congress what I think of E10/E15 or any other ethanol blend. Corn for food, not ethanol!
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we need more like him
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ok
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The march goes on...
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Get rid of ethanol!
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I'm not a fan of ethanol for anything except drinking.
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Not so good stuff.
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We've got to convince Congress to pass a law eliminating the requirement that xxx,xxx,xxx gallons of ethanol MUST be blended into transportation gasoline every year. That's the reason for the push to putting 15% ethanol into the system... as the demand for gasoline goes down, and the mandate for ethanol goes up, we are at the point that there aren't enough real gasoline to hold all the ethanol.

By 2025, ethanol mandate will be 40% of the anticipated demand for gasoline. That only works if you put 40% ethanol in the gasoline.
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Food is not fuel.
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Thank GW Bush and DickH Cheney. They and mostly repubs passing out favors to big business (big agro in this case).
Put another repub in the whitehouse if you want more of the same, or re-elect Obama if you want thIs crap gone.
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interesting...
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No subsidies.
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food is not fuel
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ethanol is not good for your car ... .
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NO more ethanol. It is crap!!! Damages vehicles, decreases mpg!
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show it nationwide
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not good
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