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Something happened here yesterday or today.
Monday - 87 octane E-10 $2.579 at the cheap stations, $2.679 everywhere else.
Today - 87 octane E-10 is now $2.699 at one station, $2.899 or 2.999 everywhere else.
We're a Kwik Trip town. Corporate headquarters are here, along with the main bakery and other infrastructure. There's maybe 6 stations I can think of that aren't a Kwik Trip. So they typically set the price and the others have to fall in line, or Kwik Trip will under cut them and run them out of business.
Could be Kwik Trip just wants to pad the bottom line before the end of the month.
Years ago, Kwik Trip switched their Premium to 91 octane ethanol free, and as prices went up, the spread between regular and premium spread from $0.20 to $0.30, to eventually today's $1.00 difference. Gas went up, spread got larger, gas went down, spread stays the same.
Today I can get 87 E-10, 88 E-15, and 91 E-0 at most Kwik Trips, and some also sell 87 E-0. You have to hunt for E-85, I think the only people who still use it are turbo guys tuned to run it. It isn't much less per gallon than regular. Ethanol subsidies or whatever usually make the 88 E-15 about 3 cents less than 87 E-10. Go to Iowa and the spread is much greater, sometimes 10 to 20 cents less.
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