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Archive for August 2nd, 2008

Posted by admin on August 2, 2008

E85 (ethanol 85%) fuel now available at P39.75/Ltr

Forum: “Anything Goes” Lounge Posted By: dlreyes Post Time: August 1st, 2008 at 08:03 AM.

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Posted by admin on August 2, 2008

Free Shirt Friday - Live Green Go Yellow

E85 ethanol, a blend of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline, is a mostly renewable fuel that can be made from biodegradable wastes and several plants, such as switchgrass, willow, and corn. In the US, there are already over 7 million

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Posted by admin on August 2, 2008

Krohn delivers in 9th Annual UPS Store Illinois Challenge

E85 - Troy Emerick — Geneseo, IL (19) DNF 21. 9 - Charles Baker — La Belle, MO (24) DNF 22. 4 - Tony Dunker — Quincy, IL (23) DNF 23. 3 - Kelly Shryock — Fertile, IA (11) DNF 24. 4rv - Ron Ver Beek — Oskaloosa, IA (17) DNF

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Posted by admin on August 2, 2008

Jack’s BP station to cut cost of E85 fuel Aug. 1

Jack’s BP station at 241 Service Drive in Watkins will cut the cost of E85 fuel by 85 cents per gallon from 2 to 5 pm on Aug. 1. read more.

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Posted by admin on August 2, 2008

Gas falls below $3.90 a gallon

The price of E85, an 85% ethanol blend which burns cleaner than straight gasoline and is made primarily from corn, fell 1.1 cents to $3.144 a gallon on average, AAA reported. While ethanol is derived from renewable sources,

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You Had Better Listen To Your Mother…

Full-fledged ethanol fuel — E85 (85 percent ethanol, 15 percent gasoline) — has limited, although increasing, availability and requires a car with a “flex-fuel” engine. Unlike gasoline, ethanol is renewable, and it causes less tailpipe

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Offshore Drilling

Take E85, for example (which, by the way, is not a solution). If E85 starts out-selling gas (which it won’t), the oil companies will lower the cost of gas just enough to make E85 the same price or higher. Bingo….problem solved…most

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Cheaper price creates ethanol envy on Long Island

A gallon of E85 ethanol mixture is going for $3.27. McBirney’s Auto Service in Massapequa is one of the first stations on Long Island to sell the new type of fuel, and workers say they’re selling a lot.

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Something I found on E85

Mythbusters on Ethanol (E85) Mythbusters Ethanol-blended gasoline powers cars and trucks hundreds of thousands of miles across the United States each and every year. In fact, it has powered vehicles through more than 2 trillion miles in

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Chevrolet Corvette C6 Indy 500 Pace Cars

One of the pace cars is a customized Corvette Z06 E85 concept that runs on E85 ethanol fuel, a domestically produced alternative fuel similar to the E100 fuel that powers all of the race cars in the Indy Racing League.

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