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Originally Posted by look 171
I don't know how gasoline sales, distribution, or state reg. works but knowing many people would buy the non ethanol gas why wouldn't more stations carry it, or it is that they can't sell it at all within the state? If so, what about those few places?
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I get two answers when I ask people around here that should know. Station owners and one driver that I know. Those that can typically price non-ethanol $.10-20 more per gallon and sell all they can get.
One is storage. The local station has to have the separate tank to store non-ethanol fuel separate from ethanol laced fuel. Many of the smaller stations around here don't have the tanks. The big corporate stations don't want to mess with it.
Two is getting the fuel from the refinery. I'm an hour south of Memphis and much of the fuel in stations around here comes from the Valero refinery in Memphis. A while back they simply stopped producing non-ethanol premium. They still make non-ethanol regular.
I've also see in the last six months around here two new stations built by different outfits, and they are setting up dedicated pumps for non-enthanol fuel.
-J