Jumpstarting E85 in California
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Posted by Cindy Zimmerman – November 1st, 2006
The U.S. Department of Energy has provided a major grant to build 15 public E85 stations in California.
According to a news release, the effort will include the collaboration of some major environmental and corporate partners, including CALSTART, General Motors, Pacific Ethanol, and CleanFUEL USA.
Currently, there is currently only one public station that sells E85 ethanol in California, despite the fact the state has more than 300,000 flex-fuel cars capable of running on the fuel.
CALSTART is a non-profit corporation that works with its 130 participating organizations to accelerate the commercialization of clean and energy efficient transportation technologies.
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Jerod Trailer
When will E85 be available in N. Calif.? The next car/truck I buy will be flex-fuel (ideally a Ford F150), but I have been unable to find out when E85 will be available in the San Francisco bay area, or when vehichles now available in other states will be available here.
Jerod Trailer
Marty
Jerod, you may be better off getting a diesel. It is cheaper to make diesel fuel from corn than ethanol. You can even make it from waste oil from restaurants. The government is screwing up the ethanol market with subsidies and taxes (the corn market also).
I can’t get ethanol in northern Nevada either.
Rich
It’s been a year since this was posted, any new development in public E85 stations in San Francisco Bay Area? I too want to convert my 02 Ford Explorer to run on E85. Gas will never come down and the US oil companies are getting greedier with all the money they are making off of us, plus the government won’t do anything but blow more smoke over our eyes and bring up food shortage. No one can agree on a solution even though regular citizens have shown what can be done hundred times over.
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