Comments on: E85 Station Opens in Concord, California

By: Bobby

Bobby — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:01:08 +0000

If e85 was promoted as a performance enhancing fuel aswell as a cheaper, cleaner, and SAFER FOR YOUR ENGINE alternitave then more people will get intrested. Because thats what it does. It greatly reduces engine tempritures and cools the air intake charge giving the car more power aswell as being safer for your engine and the environment. and did I mention cheaper? Everyone needs to do this!
If there was an e85 station in Laguna Hills/ Mission Viejo area I could list off the top of my head atleast 50 people that would convert to e85 right away.

By: David

David — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:32:05 +0000

Why is this station charging more for E85 than regular gas? E85 is heavily subsidized by the government and get on average 15% less MPG. It should cost at least a minimum of 15% less than regular. You are wasting money to fill up here with E85 until the prices comes down. The sad part is the city of Concord buys here to satisfy their part of alternative fuel, and the taxpayers get ripped off.

By: SacramentoE85

SacramentoE85 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:00:44 +0000

JM–I would have to largely agree with your sentiment; it is taking far too long and oil companies have gotten away with too much to slow the progress of installing E85 fuel pumps. At the same time, California Air Resources Board has been given the legal control over this technology (even though EPA has promoted it largely throughout the nation–why double up?!), and while the Midwest is filling in with hundreds of E85 pumps, California falls further behind. At least now they are allowing for and also providing funding for these “temporary research” pumps now; they are just simply very far behind however. We could have been contributing much more to oil independence much sooner before the run-up in gasoline prices had the installations started years ago. Kudos to Pearson Fuels for the massive efforts they have made to at least make several E85 stations available to the public, and to those who are now working with Pearson Fuels (CARB, government, local promoters, etc.).

By: JM

JM — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:12:57 +0000

This is great for the Bay Area but the progress has been too slow, 100 times this many E85 stations is needed. Building 1 in the last 8 months for the Bay Area is nothing to write home about, baby steps one would guess.