New E85 Stations Open in North Florida
Thanks to the efforts of the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Protec Fuel there are now two new E85 fueling stations near I-10 just west of Jacksonville, Florida.
R H Davis Oil Exxon in Macclenny and Citgo in Glen St. Mary will provide more fueling options to drivers of flex-fuel vehicles (FFVs) on the interstate as well as commuters traveling to Jacksonville. R H Davis Oil Company utilized Protec Fuel’s turnkey E85 program that included station design, conversion, fuel supply and financial assistance.
“This is an exciting opportunity for the towns of Macclenny and St. Mary,” said R H Davis Oil President, Max Davis. “With the Chevy Dealership down the road ordering more flex-fuel trucks and cars, we have an increasing amount of Flex-Fuel Vehicle drivers, but we never had the fuel option of E85 to offer them. With these new stations, we are able to offer all of our customers a fuel they desire.”
“We are thrilled for the opening of two new E85 fueling locations in northern Florida,” said Protec Fuel CEO Todd Garner. “With more fuel option developments like this, we will be able improve and increase the use of ethanol throughout the country. We look forward to providing fuel for these new locations.”
“These stations are part of an overall strategic plan to increase the number of E85 stations throughout the Southeast in an area full of FFVs,” said RFA’s Director of Market Development, Robert White. To help find E85 stations while on the road, the RFA has developed a fuel locater application for Garmin and TomTom GPS systems. This application will map out fueling stations closest to the user’s location and their chosen destination.
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Chip Daigle
100% Ethanol made from Corn with Natural Gas Burners gets you at most 25% Carbon Reduction. Until we get away from Corn Ethanol, we are spinning our wheels in the mud. The credit for Corn Ethanol should be reduced to 25 Cents/gallon. The credit for Sugarcane Ethanol should be increased to 85 Cents/Gallon. Import tariff on Clean and Green Sugarcane ethanol should be moved over to Dirty Imported Oil. We need to get the OK to use Hydrous Ethanol like they do in Brazil. But before all of this, we need to make all future vehicles E85 Flex Fuel Vehicles. Why use E85 to get 15% Carbon Reduction??? Obama has stood in the way of cleaner skies at every step to protect Dirty Corn Ethanol and Dirty Coal. In my book, he is an Environmental Joke.
Doug Durante
Chip, You seem very confused. Congress is trying to pass a bill calling for 17% reduction from stationary sources, which everyone calls historic, landmark climate change legislation. Using your own numbers, how is 25% reduction from ethanol not a sufficient amount for you? What level would be? By the way, that reduction via E85 increases as high as 120% using other feedstocks. DOE and EPA verify that, and have done so long before Obama came along. Calling corn ethanol dirty could not be further from the truth when it is voluntarily used by the petroleum industry to meet their clean and reformulated gasoline requirements to fight smog and carbon monoxide.
Corn ethanol has replaced 10% of the gasoline we use use in the US, keeping dollars here instead of OPEC. Why would you want to give that back? We import 70% of our transportation fuels–do think we should go for more?
We do not produce any significant volumes of sugar cane here in the US , why would you want to create a tax incentive for a feedstock we cannot produce?
I think you need to lookat the bigger picture beyond just carbon. Jobs, energy security, environment….there is a lot to like. Please check out some of our issue briefs on Ethanol Across America.net addressing these individual issues. You seem to care enought to write, hopefully you will care enough to learn.
Kenz300
Drill baby drill has turned into spill baby spill……..
Maybe we need to support our economy and American jobs by producing biofuels here at home. Our reliance on oil must be reduced for our national security and our economic security.
Let’s keep the money here at home instead of sending it to countries that want to do us harm. We are providing money to countries that teach and preach hate of western countries.
We need to make all new gasoline vehicles flex fuel and give consumers a choice at the pump.
We need to support our farmers and work to develop fuel from a variety of sources including corn, corn cobs, trash and algae.
Daniel D Martin
But we can ,and should give corn some competition!
Sweet sorghum could be grown in lots of the Southern and Western states and yes sugarcane can be grown in a much bigger area ,specially when so manny sugar mills had closed and farms vanished (look at Hawaii)
Sweet potatoes ,dates and sugar beets are also excellent feedstocks for Ethanol and we are paying lots of farmers not to plant!
Something is evidently blocking Ethanol industry to happen
Of course it is ,the old lucrative gasoline makers ,that dont wanna loose its growing margins ,even if they know ,Oil imports would bancarrupt our economy soon!
i have well water and i was told to save money get a all house filter system and i cude get the brown out?
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dwight spann
why do the car manufacturs have to build fex-fuel cars but the oil companeys not have to sell it?????
Scott
March 11, 2011 — 8:14 pm
dwight spann
why do the car manufacturs have to build fex-fuel cars but the oil companeys not have to sell it?????
Reason is not every car on the road can run E85 without being modified. Personally I wished more stations in Jax carried it instead of just the one in Baker Co. I’ed convert my truck over in a heart beat if they did. I could really put that 105oc rating to use.
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