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FYI Newsletter Volume 9, Issue 8, May 26, 2004
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Senate Approves JOBS Bill with
Alternative Fuel Tax Incentives
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Students Create a Renewable-
powered Future
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Massachusetts to Cut Greenhouse
Gas Emissions
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Ethanol’s Value Made Evident in
Marketplace
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Grocery Chain Sells E85 in
Eau Claire, WI
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Four E85 Outlets Open in MN
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Large
Turnout for E85 for 85
Cents Promotions
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Member Spotlight: Greater
Yellowstone/Teton Clean Cities
National Park
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Letters to the NEVC |
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Senate Approves JOBS Bill with Alternative Fuel Tax
Incentives |
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Prior to
leaving D.C. for the Memorial Day recess, the U.S. Senate
passed the FSC/ETI or JOBS legislation. While the basis of
the legislation is to address tariffs that have been
imposed on American exports by the European Community, a
broad set of alternative fuel tax incentives were also
added to the legislation.
Essentially, the Senate agreed to add the CLEAR Act to the
JOBS bill. As you know, the CLEAR Act, originally
sponsored by Senator Hatch, includes a number of new tax
credits to advance the use of all forms of alternative
fuels and hybrid vehicles. To view the applicable sections
of the JOBS Bill that deal with the CLEAR Act, click
here.
The next test of federal will be to really advance the use
of alternative fuels in the House of
Representatives. The House will be taking up the FSC/ETI
bill the first week in June and it is important that we
impress on our members the need to include energy tax
incentives in this bill. While it would be more logical to
pass a comprehensive National Energy Policy update, this
is unlikely to occur this session of Congress and many
believe the JOBS bill is the last real opportunity to
include energy tax issues this year.
The NEVC will be communicating with you next week
regarding actions that can be taken to encourage the House
to consider adding energy tax incentives to their JOBS
bill. |
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Students Create a Renewable-powered Future |
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- article written by
Minnesota Corn Grower special correspondent, Jonathan
Eisenthal
An outside observer might only have seen several hundred
high school and middle school students working frantically
before launching odd-looking vehicles on a slow and
stately course around the Brainerd International Raceway.
But veterans of this once-a-year spectacle see much more
than meets the eye: they also see teams of passionate
kids, who will shape the future of the automotive
industry.
Welcome to the 16th annual SuperMileage Challenge, an
event that judges participants' vehicles not on how fast
they go, but how far.
Hundreds of students from more than 40 different schools
brought about 100 vehicles to the track just north of
Brainerd May 11 and 12 to see how their designs stack up
against others in four categories: stock, modified,
experimental and E85. Since Minnesota's corn organizations
began supporting the SuperMileage Challenge using
check-off dollars, a growing number of the teams now field
vehicles that run on E85, the 85 percent ethanol/15
percent petroleum motor vehicle fuel that dramatically
lowers air pollution emissions. These students, who learn
best through project-based hands-on lessons, will be the
future engineers, designers, builders and mechanics for
America's auto industry.
"It's always exciting to be able to view these projects
like the SuperMileage Challenge," said David Ward, a
Faribault county farmer who serves as chair of the
Minnesota Corn Research and Promotion Council. "We support
programs like this with funds and with hands-on staff and
volunteer time. To see the excitement among the young
people that we are able to generate in programs created
using check-off dollars is gratifying. The effects of
programs like this will be leveraged far into the future."
The Minnesota Technical Education Association (MTEA)
sponsors the SuperMileage Challenge, along with Minnesota
Corn Growers Association, Wisconsin Magneto, Minnesota
Precision Manufacturing Association, and Brainerd
International Raceway. The organizers of the SuperMileage
Challenge take care not to call the two-day event a race,
because the aim is to achieve the highest fuel efficiency,
not the highest speed. This often makes for a slow pace,
and careful course strategies, taking into consideration
track layout, wind speed and direction and other operating
conditions. The rain-slicked track this year no doubt
affected the performance of the vehicle.
MCGA staffers assisted SuperMileage organizers with the
many on-site logistics of the event, as well as pre-and
post event publicity.
Ward, thanks to the earlier corn planting allowed by the
weather this spring, found time to attend the SuperMileage
Challenge and described what he saw: "Each vehicle has
been designed and built by the students (boys as well as
girls). Many of these kids have been involved with this
event for two or three years and several schools have as
many as four or five different vehicles, each with its own
team, so one school may have 15 or 20 students
participating. I find it inspiring to see the passion and
determination these students show in getting the car
prepared and then operating it. The driver, who is often
lying flat on his back like a luge sled in the Olympics,
attempts to drive in a very steady pattern to get the
maximum miles per gallon."
Ward added that SuperMileage offers a unique program to
students interested in this kind of hands-on design and
engineering project. Some of the students, who don't find
a place in school sports or other traditional
extra-curricular activities, may find their most exciting
school experience here, Ward speculated. Visiting with
some industrial tech educators, Ward found that some
attend SuperMileage to learn enough about it to convince
their school and students to field a team and a vehicle
for the following year.
Below are the highest-ranking teams for each SuperMileage
category (mileage is an average of the team's six best
runs).
E85
First place: Alden Conger High School, 521 mpg
Second place: Chisago Lakes High School, 388 mpg
Third place: Albert Lea Area School, 314 mpg
Stock
First Place: Pine Island High School, 512 mpg
Second place: Eden Prairie High School, 504 mpg
Third place: Prior Lake High School, 424 mpg
Modified
First place: Chippewa Middle School (Mounds View), 650 mpg
Second place: Alden Conger High School, 530 mpg
Third place: Lakeville High School, 520 mpg
Experimental
First place: Eden Prairie High School, 497 mpg
Second place: Chisago Lakes High School, 355 mpg
Third place: New Ulm High School, 263 mpg |
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Massachusetts to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions |
-from the
EERE News, May 12, 2004
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney unveiled a
comprehensive Climate Protection Plan for the state on May
6th, committing the state to reduce its greenhouse gas
emissions through measures such as energy efficiency and
renewable energy. The state has pledged to cut its energy
use enough to cut greenhouse gas emissions at state
facilities by 25 percent by 2012, and will purchase only
fuel-efficient vehicles and energy-efficient office
equipment for its facilities. In addition, Massachusetts
will improve its efficiency standards, encourage the
construction of "green" buildings, encourage the
development of renewable energy, and implement
California's Low Emission Vehicle program to reduce
emissions from vehicles in the state.
The state aims to form partnerships with public and
private entities in Massachusetts to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2010, with an
additional 10 percent reduction by 2020. To allow
flexibility in meeting those goals, the state plans to
develop a market for earning and trading greenhouse gas
emissions credits within the state. Click here for the
governor’s announcement and here for the Climate
Protection Plan.
A recent study by the Argonne National Laboratory, a
division of the Department of Energy, states that
greenhouse gas emissions are reduced 24-26% when E85 is
used in a flexible-fuel vehicle. E85 is a great resource
for Massachusetts to achieve its goal of reducing
emissions by the year 2012! |
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Ethanol’s Value Made Evident in Marketplace |
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 - by Jerry Taylor, President of MFA Oil
Published in the
Columbia Daily Tribune, May 18, 2004
Following is a letter that was recently sent to the
Editor of the Columbia, Missouri newspaper regarding the
use of ethanol. The Editor of the Columbia (MO) Daily
Tribune, Mr. Hank Waters, had previously commented in this
same newspaper that ethanol had little value.
A few
weeks ago, an editorial in this newspaper questioned the
value of using ethanol in automobiles as an alternative to
gasoline. Most of the argument was based on the fact that
the writer doesn’t like the government subsidies that have
been awarded to ethanol producers.
Unfortunately, to rally sentiment against the use of
ethanol, the writer, Hank Waters, made a series of
assertions implying ethanol has no redeeming qualities.
I’d like to correct the record.
Contrary to Waters’ claim, ethanol is better for the
environment than gasoline. Ethanol burns cleaner and
cooler. It results in less toxic emissions. It does not
damage the ozone layer. When ethanol is used as an
additive to gasoline in place of MTBE, it offers a
substantially lower risk in terms of groundwater
contamination. And these are not simply facts put forward
by ethanol producers. The proof comes from a wide variety
of reputable sources.
For
instance, the American Lung Association of Metropolitan
Chicago credits ethanol-blended reformulated gasoline with
reducing smog-forming emissions by 25 percent since 1990.
And in 2003, Argonne National Laboratory determined
ethanol use in the United States reduced CO2-equivalent
greenhouse emissions by 5.7 million tons, an amount equal
to the annual emissions of more than 853,000 automobiles.
That is a real and measurable benefit.
As
Americans learn more about the benefits of ethanol and
understand that ethanol-blended gasoline is safe for both
engines and the environment, consumption of ethanol fuels
has steadily increased. Today, ethanol-blended fuels
account for about 30 percent of all automotive fuels sold
in the United States, and all vehicle manufacturers now
approve the use of a 10 percent ethanol blend in their
cars.
Waters’ rhetorical question - "Who’d buy the stuff?" -
seems to have been answered by the marketplace, and the
resounding answer seems to be, "We all will." At Break
Time locations throughout this state, premium
ethanol-blended gasoline sells for about the same price as
unleaded regular, and we have found that when price is not
a concern, customers are increasingly being drawn to the
environmentally friendlier option.
That’s the marketplace at work in the real world.
Unfortunately, Waters believes the true marketplace is not
able to work in this arena because of the subsidies that
have been granted to ethanol producers. This idea
completely misses the point. Look at the overall energy
market, and you’ll find that ethanol must be subsidized
just to have a chance at competing with petroleum-based
products.
For
years, the government has maintained a "cheap energy"
policy in an effort to fuel the U.S. economic engine and
help keep the costs of transportation and manufacturing
affordable. Most of the subsidies go for oil, not ethanol.
The General Accounting Office reports the federal
government has spent more than $130 billion during the
past 32 years in subsidies to the oil industry. That
excludes the additional billions awarded in the form of
oil depletion allowances and tax credits since the turn of
the last century.
Some
studies indicate if gasoline were sold for its actual
total cost of production, the consumer price would be in
excess of $15 per gallon.
At
that point, I, too, would ask, "Who’d buy the stuff?" and
would further ask what kind of effect such a price would
have on the rest of the marketplace Waters wants to
defend. I think the federal government has to be actively
involved. And if it is, why not take the opportunity to
expand our federal energy policy beyond one that focuses
on the cost of oil and allow an alternative, renewable,
clean energy form such as ethanol to compete in the same
market?
Such
a policy would indeed be environmentally sound and worthy
of government subsidy without disrupting the existing
energy market. And contrary to Waters’ perception, the
increased use of U.S.-produced fuel would have an impact
on our over-reliance on foreign oil. Every gallon of
ethanol we use reduces the influence of foreign oil price
fluctuations on our economy, produces more farm income and
value-added opportunities and helps Americans become
attenuated to the idea that alternative fuels are reliable
and efficient.
And
it makes economic sense. Spending on ethanol industry
operations and new construction will add $1.14 billion in
federal tax revenues and $734 million for state and local
governments this year alone, offsetting much of the cost
of subsidies.
Additionally, federal outlays for corn deficit payments
will be reduced significantly because the market for corn
will remain strong, just as we saw last year and this
spring. And the farm economy gets a much-needed shot in
the arm.
I’m
in the oil business. "Oil" is in the name of the company I
represent. But even I can see the clear advantages that
ethanol offers the residents and consumers of this state.
Let’s move forward on the issue of ethanol and give our
environment, our farmers and our nation the
boost they deserve.
Note from the NEVC:
Jerry Taylor is the President of MFA Oil which is a
member of the NEVC. E85 is sold at MFA Oil’s Breaktime at
200 North Providence in Columbia, Missouri and soon two
additional E85 outlets will be opened by MFA Oil.
The NEVC would like to thank Jerry and all the staff at
MFA Oil for their support of ethanol. We need more
advocates in the mold of Jerry Taylor! |
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Grocery Chain Sells E85 in Eau Claire, WI |
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A grocery chain in central Wisconsin, Mega Markets, has
opened an E85 site at Mega West,
2615 North Clairemont
Avenue in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The unattended station
plans to sell E85 for 30 cents below unleaded
gasoline and is planning a grand opening soon. There are
nine additional E85 outlets in Wisconsin. For addresses
of the sites, visit
www.E85Fuel.com. |
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Four E85 Outlets Open in MN |
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Four new E85 stations have recently been added to the list
of locations in Minnesota, bringing the total number of
public facilities in the state to 95!
These sites are in Worthington, Woodbury, Wheaton, and Alden.
A 4,000 gallon tank now stores E85 at the Cenex located at
1710 Humiston Avenue in Worthington, Minnesota. Other
fuels the station offers are gasoline, biodiesel,
kerosene, and Roadmaster diesel. Amenities include a
convenience store, the pay-at-the pump option, ATM, and a
Greyhound Bus stop.
Other sites opened recently in Minnesota are:
Tri-County Coop Cenex at 201
5th Street South in Wheaton
Freeborn County Coop Cenex at
125 Northstar Road in Alden
Season's Market Holiday at 757
Radio Drive in Woodbury
E85 outlets to open soon in Minnesota include:
Farmers Coop Oil Cenex at 118 - NE Dupontin in Renville
212 - 1-Stop Cenex at 101 East Highway 212 in Danube
Cenex C-Store at 1400 East Bridge Street in Redwood Falls
For addresses of all E85 sites
across the U.S., visit
www.E85Fuel.com. |
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Large Turnout for E85 for 85
Cents Promotions |
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Kansas
Secretary of Agriculture Adrian Polansky and Capt.
Cornelius attended the Petro Plus event.
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On May 13,
2004 the Petro Plus at 120 South Maple Street in Garnett,
Kansas celebrated the Grand Opening of their E85 pump with
an E85 for 85 Cent per gallon promotion. E10, a blend of
10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline, sold for a ten
cent per gallon discount, prize drawings and food and
drink specials were also featured. About 1,180 gallons of
E85 were sold during the promotion along with 1,829
gallons of E10.
 Eight
E85 stations in the Chicago metro-area promoted the clean
burning, alternative
E85 fuel for 85 cents per gallon from 3-7 p.m. on May 20,
2004. Twenty or more vehicles were reported lined up
at a time at some stations to take advantage of the
inexpensive fuel. The stations included those
in Elgin, Mt. Prospect, Evanston, Elmhurst, Lakeview,
Chicago, Des Plaines and Arlington Heights. A total
of about 800 cars fueled with more than 9,000
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The Season's Market Holiday, located at 757 Radio Drive in
Woodbury, Minnesota, sold E85 for the discounted price of
85 cents per gallon all day on both May 22 and 23, 2004.
Also, Bobby and Steve’s Mobil at 1221 Washington Avenue
South in downtown Minneapolis sold the fuel for the sale
price on May 23 from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. Bobbie and
Steve's Mobil was one of the first fueling stations in
Minnesota to offer E85 five years ago. An astonishing
7,000 gallons were sold between the two locations!
Tim Gerlach of
the American Lung Association of Minnesota stated, “Mark
Fritz of Season's Market Holiday and Steve Williams of
Bobby & Steve's Mobil are were wonderful to work with.
Great people and great supporters of E85. We hope that
half the customers that came through this weekend will
come back again!” |
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Member Spotlight: Greater Yellowstone/Teton Clean
Cities National Park |
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The
NEVC welcomes Sharon Roh and the Greater Yellowstone/Teton
Clean Cities National Park to our organization. We invite
you to join ‘the Coalition’ and others in our fight to
make E85 a more widely known and used fuel. For more
information about becoming a member of the NEVC, click
here. |
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Letters
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Letters to the NEVC -
This section highlights emails that the NEVC has recently
received. Many of the comments or suggestions that
we receive are of interest to a wider audience and we
would like to share them with our readers. |
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The following emails were written to NEVC Director of
Communications, Michelle Kautz. . .
E85 Hybrid?
Michelle,
Ford is introducing a Hybrid next year in the form of the
Ford Escape. On their website they use the FFV logo that
for a long time was used on their E85 vehicles. I can
find no information from their website on if this new
Hybrid will run E85 in addition to the electric powered
engine and was wondering if you would know or had a way to
find out?
Also, do you know when the list of E85 ready vehicles for
'05 will be available?
Thanks,
Corey A. Holland
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Corey,
Thank you for your interest of E85! Unfortunately, the
Escape Hybrids will not be E85 compatible. The Ford "road
and leaf" logo has traditionally been used for all
non-gasoline powered vehicles, not just for E85 vehicles.
We should probably have a list of MY 2005 E85 vehicles in
late July or August. We will announce the vehicles in our
bi-monthly newsletter and update our website as soon as we
hear word. I will make certain your email address is on
our newsletter distribution list.
-Michelle Kautz
E85 in Ohio
Is there really only one place in Ohio where I can fill up
with E85? I
don't mind driving 10 miles out of my way, that is the
distance from my
place to the only known refueling location in Ohio. And
why did it cost me $1.799 a gallon when I filled up last
week? At that price, the loss in mpg for my Ford Ranger
hardly makes the change worthwhile. Will e85 always be
the same price as regular fuel?
-Greg
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Greg,
Unfortunately, yes, there is only one public E85 location
in Ohio. However, you can help bring more E85 stations to
your area. First, by just being a customer that 'asks for
E85' at your local service stations, you'll get fuel
suppliers thinking about the potential. Go to
http://www.e85fuel.com/pdf/5902guidebook.pdf and print
off the guidebook.
Give this document to prospective retailers. Secondly,
you can send a note to your congressman asking them to
support the Energy Tax Incentive portion of the JOBS
bill. This bill will help bring more E85 locations to
Ohio. Go to
www.congress.org, place your zip code in the top, and
click on the button that reads “e-mail” under your
representative.
To address your question about the price of E85 -- Where
there is competition in the marketplace such as Minnesota
with the more than 90 public E85 stations, the price of
E85 averages 15 to 20 cents per gallon less than unleaded
gasoline. In areas of the nation where competition is
limited, such as Ohio, the price of E85 is the same as
unleaded.
Thank you and please contact me should I be of any more
help.
Michelle Kautz
This email was written to the NEVC and forwarded to Monte
Shaw from the Renewable Fuels Association . . .
Cost of E85
We love E85 and use it 100% of
the time, except when on out-of-state trips, when we can't
find it. We buy it for 20 cents per gallon cheaper than
unleaded gasoline (yippee) at out local Fairmont station.
We do our best to promote E85 at every opportunity.
But why does the price rise each
time the price of gasoline rises? Should not the price be
determined independently of imported crude oil prices?
What a PR boost for E85 if the price gap widened with each
rise in gasoline prices! The American public would
quickly take notice. Flexible fuel vehicles would be in
greater demand, the demand for E85 would mushroom, our
farmers would receive greater profit from their corn, our
environment would be cleaner, and we would become less
dependent on the middle east for oil!
Ed and Ruth Hinrichs
Fairmont, Minnesota
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Ed and Ruth,
I work for the Renewable Fuels Association, the national
trade association for ethanol producers. I understand the
enthusiasm behind your question and share your belief that
the public will increasingly take notice of the price
savings (and other benefits) of E85.
There are probably a couple of reasons you’re seeing the
price of E85 move generally up and down with the price of
gasoline.
1. While ethanol supply contracts do vary, some are flat
rate, but many are themselves tied to the price of
benchmark gasoline. So when gasoline prices go up, the
retailer might also be paying more for the E85.
2. Outside of E85, ethanol is a gasoline component that
competes against other high-octane petroleum products.
When petroleum prices go up, ethanol is more competitive,
so ethanol demand goes up. But when ethanol demand goes
up, so does the wholesale price of ethanol. In other
words, the wholesale price of ethanol tends to track that
of regular gasoline. Therefore, wholesale ethanol prices
have risen this year. This impacts all ethanol markets –
the impact will vary depending on what type of supply
contract is in place and what time period it covers.
3. Finally, retail prices of fuel products don’t always
track the wholesale cost of the product. We see that with
gasoline all the time. For example, if there’s a
shortage, prices go up even though the cost of production
might remain the same. With gas prices up, a retailer may
increase the price of E85 simply because they can while
still maintaining an attractive savings compared to
regular gasoline. On the other, if gas prices fall, the
same retailer may lower the price of E85 to maintain the
price savings even if ethanol prices don’t fall as fast.
In other words, the retail “profit margin” may be bigger
or smaller at any given time even as the retail price
difference between gasoline and E85 remains the same.
I hope this helps shed some light on the situation.
Ultimately, the retailer determines the pump price based
on these and many other factors. You can always ask the
station owner. But always remember to thank them for
making a commitment to domestic, renewable ethanol. These
station owners often incur a big expense to install an E85
tank/pump and then have to work to raise awareness among
the average consumer. It sounds like you’re helping do
that as well. We thank you for that!!
Monte
Shaw
Renewable Fuels Association
This email was
written to NEVC Executive Director, Phil Lampert . . .
Just Some Thoughts for you to Ponder
Hello!
I imagine with
the price of gasoline going to record highs, you are
getting many inquiries about E85. I own some older
vehicles, one being a 1993 Chevy Suburban with a 454
engine. It is a gas hog! With a 42-gallon tank, I get by
with no less than $50 each time I pull in to the station.
We just got E85 fuel availability in Wheaton, MN and I
would like to use it as it is cheaper AND it helps our
local farm economy.
I was reading in
the FAQ section of your website there are no available
conversion kits available or any way to convert my
vehicles to burn E85 fuel. Is that still the case or do
you know of any kits available to make this conversion?
Obviously, one would have to weigh the cost of conversion
and calculate how long it would take to regain your
investment with the savings in fuel prices. I would
expect that if more people use E85, the prices would come
down because of less dependence on foreign oil. I support
the production and use of E85 fuel 100 % and would like to
encourage more promotion. I would also be interested in a
relatively inexpensive conversion kit or process to make
the older vehicles E85 compatible. If I understand
correctly, it is just a matter of an O2 sensor, a little
re-program of the computer and alcohol tolerant fuel
system components. Why would that be so hard to do? I
would think that for under $500 per vehicle, one could
have this done. The computer and O2 sensor would be the
easiest thing to change and adjust. Fuel lines and
gaskets/parts including a fuel tank would be a little
harder but anyone with a little mechanical know-how could
do the conversion in a weekend in their own backyard!
My nephew, an
MIT Graduate is interested in developing such a conversion
kit for retail sale. He is also interested in developing
a unit where individuals could produce their own fuel.
This would be especially good for farmers as they can grow
their own product to use in their own operation.
Just some
thoughts for you to ponder.
I am definitely
interested in pursuing this and would be willing to
convert all my vehicles to E85 Flexible Fuel vehicles if
there was a way to do so at a reasonable cost. I think it
would pay off in the long run.
I will
definitely be looking at buying E85 Flexible Fueled
vehicles from this time forward. As I replace the older
ones I have now, E85 FFV will be high on my list of
features in those I consider purchasing.
Keep up the good
work.
Jon and Sharon
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Jon and Sharon,
Thanks so much for your nice note and your support of the
use of E85. I wish that we could be more helpful in
responding to your questions regarding conversions,
however, this is not so easy.......You can find attached
here a copy of a document that has been prepared by
the U.S. EPA that addresses conversions of vehicles to
operate on a type of fuel for which they were not
designed. Essentially, the use of any fuel in a motor
vehicle that does not comply with provisions of the Clean
Air Act is a violation of federal law........Granted, I
haven't seen many gas cops around, but the issue is that
companies have been unwilling to develop and market the
equipment needed to convert a vehicle from gasoline to
E85.........
We have many, many folks that tell us that their gasoline
vehicles operate fine on E85. As an organization, I hope
you understand that we cannot recommend that you put E85
into your vehicle, but our experience is that there will
be little in the way of problems.
Thanks for your interest in purchasing a FFV for your next
vehicle, this is really the best way to proceed.
Again, sorry we can't be more help. Please call if you
would like to discuss in greater detail.
-Phil Lampert
Thanks for the emails to the NEVC! Feel free to
email us with your comments at anytime.
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June 13-15, 2004
14th Annual EPAC Ethanol Conference
at the Great Northern Hotel in Helena, Montana. For more
information, email
shirley@ethanolmt.org.
June 29-30 (tentative)
E85 for 85 cents in Alden, MN and Brownsdale, MN. For
more information, email
tim.gerlach@alamn.org.
July 20-22, 2004
FedFleet 2004: The Road to the Future is Now at the Jacob
K. Javits Convention Center in New York, NY. For more
information, visit
www.fedfleet.org.
August 10-12
American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) Annual Meeting and
Ethanol Conference in Duluth, MN. E85 for 85 Cents
promotion planned. For more information, visit
www.ethanol.org.
August 31 – Sept. 1, 2004
Energy Technology Expo and Conference in Denver, CO. For
more information, visit
www.energytechexpo.com.
CONTACT US. . .
Please feel free to e-mail your story suggestions,
comments, corrections or clarifications to us at
info@e85fuel.com
or call us toll free at 877-485-8595.
Phillip J. Lampert, Executive Director
info@e85.com
Randa Barker, Director of Administration
info@e85.com
Kathy Frese, CPA, Director of Finance
kfrese@E85Fuel.com
Michelle Kautz, Director of Communications
mkautz@E85Fuel.com
Roger Listenberger, Director E85 Fuel Networking
rlistenberger@E85Fuel.com
Louise Saucier, Membership Coordinator
lsaucier@E85Fuel.com
Christi Vander Voort, NEVC Iowa E85 Coordinator
cvandervoort@E85Fuel.com
You may view this FYI online at
http://www.e85fuel.com/news/index.htm
NEVC promotes the use of 85
percent ethanol as a renewable form of alternative
transportation fuel while enhancing agricultural
profitability, advancing environmental stewardship and
promoting national energy independence. |
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