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<div>According to this source, E85 is sold at the Stinker Station in Lewiston, but not in Moscow:</div>
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<div>The U of I has engineering research ongoing using biofuels, so they might know where a local source for gas/ethanol blends could be found:</div>
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<div>The University of Idaho team's two-stroke Rotax DI engine, powered by fuel that is 90 percent gas and 10 percent ethanol, racked up an impressive 19.6 miles-per-gallon on the 100-mile course at Michigan Tech's Keweenaw Research Center.
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<div>Ethanol has been in gasoline for years already, here in Moscow at gas stations, at low percentages. It's advertised right at the pump. It is mandated in Spokane during the winter (unless they're adding something else as an oxygenate). It has been added to address air quality as an "oxygenate." The percentage can vary from 5% on up (read links below), though the higher perentage blends of ethanol/gas are rare in the US, in part because so few people drive vehicles that can use the higher percentage blends. The corn based ethanol industry is to a large extent a way to support US farmers and agriculture, with subsidies. It is not the most efficient form of biofuel. Brazil has massive sugar cane based ethanol, which is more efficient.
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<div>Regarding oil profits being extended into the next millennium, even wildly optimistic estimates of recognized oil reserves and undiscovered oil exploitation predict no more than 100-150 years before the end of oil, given projected consumption trends even with conservation, biofuels and other alternative energy added to the mix. Hopefully this will never happen, given that the crisis of fossil fuel emissions inducing global warming will force a change in behavior so that much of the oil remains in the ground. This hope is most likely in vain.
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<div><br><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Hansen</b> <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What I understand is that there are two types of ethanol on the "market". Ethanol 30 and Ethanol 80 (sometimes referred to as "Ethanol 85"). I further understand that the oil industry strongly supports Ethanol 30 as the "adoption" of Ethanol 30 would not cut into the oil industry's bottom line (and would extend their profits into the next millennium) as much as Ethanol 80 would.
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">Seeya round town, Moscow.<br><br>Tom Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br><br>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" target="_blank">
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a> [mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>] <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">
On Behalf Of </span></b>Dan Carscallen<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 26, 2007 6:52 AM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">
vision2020@moscow.com</a><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] E85</span></font></p></div><span class="q">
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<p><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="maroon" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: maroon">I just read a letter to the editor in the Trib that says the Stinker Station at the top of Thain Grade is selling E85 ethanol blend (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline). Doing some research, I see that E85 has an octane rating of 105. The feller also claims in his letter that it's $0.35 cheaper than regular gasoline. I've read in other places that, even though they don't quite get the fuel mileage out of the E85, they still come out ahead dollar-wise due to the price difference.
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<p><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="maroon" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: maroon">Anyone know if there's any available here in town? I'd like to try it out in my dirt bike or ATV. Not sure if it will work in my rigs since they aren't "flex-fuel" engines. It probably won't work in them, but in my KTM525, 105 octane would go a long ways toward preventing detonation.
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