Calcasieu Refinery in Lake Charles was producing ethanol free gas the last time I talked to them. It will be harder and harder to find ethanol free gas in the future as no major stations outside of a area close to a marina will be able to get it. All major stations will have to carry this craaap.
While up in Minnesota last week, I had the chance to spend some time with one of the operators at the terminal where the work we were overseeing was being done. This terminal is a loading facility where fuels are piplelined in, then sent out via transports from a loading rack. It was very, very similar to the Chevron terminal south of Opelousas if anyone is familiar with that site. Anyway, I asked if they were having issues w/ ethanol being they were in corn country and had so many supportors of it. I almost got smacked for even bringing it up! They hate it also and I got to see first hand what it does to their equipment. I will try to get the guy to email me the pictures he sent me of their screens and filters from this past winter. Incredible! This stuff gummed up so bad it shut a terminal down for 2 days! It looked like rotten peanut butter all the way up to their pump suctions!
At this point, I will continue to put in ethanol treatment to every gallon of gas I purchase, no matter where it comes from. Until someone in Washington makes people understand that Ethnaol has been a failure, we are stuck with it. And making people in Washington understand common sense has not been to successful for the past 50 years! When it cost $8/gal to produce and then they give money away to use it, I just sit back and try to figure out where they got their education because their math teacher must have been on crack!
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