In This Issue:

FYI Newsletter Volume 8, Issue 10, July 2, 2003 

•   San Antonio’s City Public Service Now Fueling with E85 •   Survey Finds Americans Want Action on Global Warming  • E85 Stations Open in Iowa

•   Nashville to Open its First E85 Station •   NEVC Newsletter Email Campaign a Success •   Letters to the NEVC

 San Antonio’s City Public Service Now Fueling with E85

Survey Finds Americans Want Action on Global Warming 

-  Surveyed by the University of Oregon 

More than 80 percent of Americans think the United States should reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new survey conducted at the University of Oregon. 

The survey is especially timely as the U.S. Senate debates the National Energy Plan. Senators John McCain, R-Arizona, and Joe Lieberman, D-Connecticut, are co-sponsoring an amendment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through government regulation and a market-based trading system. 

The survey data, compiled by the University of Oregon’s Survey Research Laboratory, found that of those Americans who have heard of global warming (92 percent): 

•  A strong majority (77 percent) supports regulation of carbon dioxide as a pollutant and investment in renewable energy (71 percent). 

• A strong majority (88 percent) supports the Kyoto Protocol and wants the United States to reduce emissions regardless of what other countries do (76 percent). 

•  While a majority favors a tax on "gas guzzlers" (54 percent), strong majorities oppose a gasoline tax (78 percent) or a business energy tax (60 percent) to reduce emissions. 

• Americans divide evenly (40 percent) regarding a market-based emissions trading system, while 18 percent are uncertain. 

"One of the most surprising findings was the strong, bipartisan support for action," said Anthony Leiserowitz, the study's principal  investigator. "Clear majorities of Republicans and Democrats, Conservatives and Liberals said they support national policies to address global warming. With the Senate now debating the issue, decisions that will affect us all for generations to come are in the balance." 

Funded by the National Science Foundation, the mail survey of 673 adults was conducted between November 2002 and February 2003. 

Survey results are available online at http://osrl.uoregon.edu/projects/globalwarm/.  For more information, contact Ross West, (541) 346-2060, rwest@oregon.uoregon.edu or Anthony Leiserowitz, (541) 346-0871, ecotone@uoregon.edu. 

Studies have found that the use of E85 as a transportation fuel has significantly reduced air toxins.  Such studies such as The Effects of Fuel Ethanol Use on Fuel-Cycle Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions by M. Wang, C. Saricks, and D. Santini of the Center for Transportation Research, Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory can be found by clicking here.

E85 Stations Open in Iowa

The NEVC is pleased to announce the opening of two E85 stations in Iowa -- Mike’s, Inc. at 203 Highway 12 in Akron and Community Oil Company at 1204 Golf Course Road in Rock Valley.  Both stations have retrofitted a 10,000 gallon gasoline tank to store the renewable fuel. 

Iowa will also be gaining six additional E85 locations.  The sites already decided include: Coop Gas and Oil at 153 North Main Street in Sioux Center; 310 86th Street in Orange City; and Farmers Coop Company at 105 East Main in Hinton.  Look for these stations to start pumping in coming weeks.   These sites and other new E85 fueling stations planned for Iowa are being supported through the collaboration of the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition and the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association. 

The NEVC has supplied Mike’s, Inc. and Community Oil Company with E85 promotional kits and plans to supply the remaining six stations with the E85 materials. These kits include E85 brochures, pump talkers, pump toppers, curbside pricing signs and banners.  To view these items or to order E85 promotional items, click here.   

Iowa has additional E85 pumps in Ames, Burlington, Council Bluffs, Lake Mills, Northwood, and Sergeant Bluff.  For a complete listing of E85 locations, visit www.E85Fuel.com.

Nashville to Open its First E85 Station

Nashville, Tennessee will soon open its first public E85 fueling station.  Main Street Citgo, located near the Titan football stadium, will soon be selling the clean-burning alternative.    

The pump is planned to open this week, the first week in July, and a Grand Opening Celebration is planned for the second week of the month.  The new 10,000 gallon tank plans to service about 1,200 fleet vehicles as well as the general public.  

Clean Cities of Middle Tennessee worked with Hollingsworth Oil and received a grant from the NEVC to partially fund the project.   

“We are proud to help the Clean Cities of Middle Tennessee to develop the first E85 facility in Tennessee,” said Phil Lampert, Executive Director of the NEVC.  “The location is ideal for state and federal fleet use and to the public. Early this fall we expect to roll out a local promotional program to educate Nashville residents about the value of E85.”

The response was tremendous when the NEVC asked for assistance in increasing the distribution list for their official newsletter, the “FYI”.  By supplying the NEVC with additional individual readers who care about the environment and our U.S. economy, many individuals received E85 hats, t-shirts and, in some instances, a free annual membership to the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition.  When asked to comment on why they helped the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition spread the word about E85, there were many positive responses:

I support E85 because it supports all the people that I admire and believe in.  Farmers and producers need every value added opportunity that they can get.
 

• I support E85 because it supports all the people that I admire and believe in.  Farmers and producers need every value added opportunity that they can get

• Clean and profarmer

• I am a grain growing farmer 

• For better environment

• The ethanol wave spreading through the US will be another avenue to address environmental and economic concerns in the Midwestern states

• E85 is a great fuel – we just need to continue to expand the infrastructure and increase public awareness of the product

• Environment concern

• I am an ethanol producer and owner of an FFV

• Alternative fuel source that supports agriculture

• It’s good fuel for my vehicles and it helps the farm economy

• Cleaner more efficient vehicles, plus we’re not exhausting our natural resources

• Our company manufactures and markets agricultural adjuvants and our end user customers are growers 

• I believe it is a great fuel alternative and will allow this government to lessen its dependence on foreign oil 

• I need a new hat!

 Letters to the NEVC

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.

The following letters were written to NEVC Director of Communications, Michelle Saab. 

More E85

Hi Michelle:

Just relocated from Minnesota to Virginia and there's only one station in the entire state.  What steps is your organization taking to add more retailers that carry E85 gas?  I loved using it and used it exclusively in Minnesota, but cannot find it here in the Hampton Roads area at all.  I'm in Virginia Beach, but am surrounded by huge communities of Hampton, Suffolk, Norfolk and Chesapeake, surely you guys could find ONE station in this area to carry the product?! 

Please let me know when more are added.  I'm on the newsletter mailing list and will continue to watch.  E85 really caught on in Minnesota, hard to believe if it was more aggressively promoted it wouldn't do so here as well...

Take care,
Jessica Walton
Virginia Beach, VA

. . .

Jessica,

Thanks for your use of E85 and for your support of the development of a domestic-renewable form of transportation fuel.  This office has been working closely with the Hampton Roads Clean Cities Coalition to advance the establishment of E85 fueling systems.  We should have an announcement soon on where the site will be. . . 

Thank you,
Michelle Saab

. . .

Michelle:

I always enjoyed using E85 gas, not only because it was a little cheaper, but because my car felt like it ran better.  I love the fact that I'm helping American farmers AND helping my car to run cleaner.  We all have to do what little we can to better the environment and it makes me proud to do so. 

I really hope you begin having more stations in the Hampton Roads area.  I'd gladly go out of my way to support E85.

Thanks for the info and I await your letter telling me where my E85 station is...

Take care, 
Jessica Walton
 

E85 or Gasoline?

I have an FFV and can use E85, however, if I've been using unleaded gasoline for the past year is it okay to switch?  Can I put either in and not hurt anything, or should I stick to the E85 once I start?  The reason I ask is, there aren't that many stations around me that sell E85, so if I do find one and have an option, I'd prefer to use the E85.

Please advise!

Thanks!
Laurie Denzel
Plymouth, MN

. . .

Laurie, 

An FFV or flexible-fuel vehicle can use 100% gasoline, up to 85% ethanol.  You may fuel with gasoline one week and at your next filling, fuel with the alternative fuel.  Your vehicle will not be harmed if you switch at anytime during the life of your vehicle.   

Thank you for your support of E85!

-Michelle Saab

Thanks for the emails to the NEVC!  Feel free to email us with your comments at anytime.

NEVC Calendar

July 16, 2003
General Motors, NEVC, and State of Wisconsin E85 promotional kickoff in Janesville, WI.  For more information, contact Michelle Saab at info@e85.com.

July22, 2003
Grand Opening Celebration of first E85 refueling station in Oklahoma at 21 N.E. 4^th Street in Oklahoma City.  For more information, contact Yvonne Anderson at yanderson@acogok.org.

July 30 – August 1, 2003
American Coalition for Ethanol’s Annual Meeting & Ethanol Conference at the Sioux Falls Convention Center in Sioux Falls, SD.  For more information, visit www.ethanol.org/conference.htm or email wsburen@ethanol.org.

August 17-24, 2003
Energy 2003 Workshop and Exposition in Orlando, FL.  Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Federal Energy Management Program and co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. General Services Administration.  Visit www.energy2003.ee.doe.gov or call 1-800-395-8574 for more information.

September 21-23,2003
The US Refining and Automotive Industries 2003 and Beyond - Coming Together of Energy, Environmental & Economic Issues in Washington, DC at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill.  For more information, visit call 1-800-872-3835. 

March 2-4, 2004
Commodity Classic 2004 in Las Vegas, NV.  For more information, visit www.commodityclassic.com.

July 22-24, 2004
FedFleet 2004 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.  For more information, visit www.fedfleet.org or contact Laurie Feld at laurie.feld@gsa.gov or 202-219-1821.

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

Michelle Saab, Director of Communications
info@e85.com

Randa Barker, Director of Administration
info@e85.com

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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.