South Florida Gas Stations Get Ethanol Blends
Palm Beach Post:
South Florida motorists such as salesman Angel Gonzalez of West Palm Beach now have another choice at the gasoline pump, even if they aren’t all that familiar with it.
“I don’t know anything about it. I know I have to buy gas,” said Gonzalez, 31, who works in Boca Raton and was filling his Honda Accord with a fuel called E10 at a Hess Express in suburban West Palm Beach.
E10 contains 90% gasoline and 10% ethanol and began arriving in area stations at the end of last year. Among the brands that have E10 at some or all of their South Florida stations are Marathon, Hess, Murphy Oil USA, Pilot and Racetrac.
“Virtually all the marketers in Florida are moving toward 10% ethanol blends as rapidly as they are able,” said Matt Hartwig, spokesman for the Renewable Fuels Association in Washington, D.C.
Pumps containing the blend are marked with a sticker that states: “contains 10% or less ethanol.” E10 is suitable for use in virtually all gasoline-powered vehicles, in contrast to E85, a blend with 85% ethanol that can be used only in flexible-fuel vehicles.
“E10 is expanding all over the state… It is something we hope will help fuels burn cleaner and reduce dependence on foreign oil,” said Matt Curran, chief of the state’s petroleum bureau at the Florida Department of Agriculture.
Hess Corp. started in November 2007 and completed the rollout of the fuel to all 320 of its Florida stations this month, said Lorrie Hecker, a spokeswoman for Woodbridge, N.J.-based Hess.
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