Alcohol Blend Pump

[Robby Barbaro]

In December, the Alcohol Can Be a Gas team received the following email from Harley Killgore, an enthusiastic reader from Michigan:

“Hello, I have a copy of Alcohol Can Be A Gas, and have been "eating it up". I have been running some E-85 and now E-20 in my '90 Chevy Caprice retired police car. I was putting a few gallons of E-85 in and finish filling up with regular gas. The station was recently remodeled and now has a blend pump that allows me to choose from plain gas, E-20, E-40, or E-85. I filled up with the E-20, which is about the percent I had been using already. The pump now does it for me. Car is doing fine with it. The price difference is only a few cents per gallon, but I don't care. Every gallon of alcohol in the tank is one less gallon of gasoline I burn. Thanks, Harley Killgore”

[Larrybb]

This is a very neat option as a fuel pump. I hope more of this comes to be common use soon.

[Robby Barbaro]

Hey Larrybb,

I agree, it is a very neat operation and it would be great if people had these options at every fuel station. All we gotta do is start requesting it from our local fuel stations and they can buy alcohol from 1 of over 50 farmer owned co-ops in the Midwest.

Have you contacted fuel station owners in your local area?

[DMMc]

Wish this was an option around here. We are lucky to find an E85 pump at ANY station in this area of Indiana. One of the largest of the new Alcohol plants is in my county and there is not a single station in the county that sells E85. In Kokomo, a city with a population of over 45,000 there are only 2 stations that I am aware of that cary E85. One is the co-op and way off the beaten path the other is Meijer and it's a single pump WELL away from the rest of the pumps.