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Non-Tech : $2 or higher gas - Can ethanol make a comeback? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: richardred who wrote (1045)	4/16/2006 4:35:28 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 2801

Thanks for the reference. The Ethanol - Gasoline Blend is what was referred to as Gasohol if I recall correctly isn't it? I think that is what was sold in the late 1970s. ----------- The link that you provided carries this piece of information, Ethanol is blended with gasoline to help reduce air pollution. In California, New York and Connecticut – states which have phased out the use of MTBE – ethanol must be blended with gasoline to meet Clean Air Act requirements for oxygenated fuel. In New York and Connecticut, 10% ethanol is blended with 90% gasoline while in California, 5.7% ethanol is blended with 94.3% gasoline. Gasoline Price Reductions to Consumers with Increased Use of Ethanol The best example of how consumers could realize lower gasoline prices is using sales of petroleum products and ethanol in New York harbor (see Table 4).11 Gasoline and ethanol shipped into New York harbor serve markets in New Jersey where refiners still use MTBE and New York and Connecticut where refiners blend ethanol. Assuming that refiners and gasoline marketers in New York harbor took advantage of lower-priced ethanol during March, they could have lowered consumer gasoline prices by 5 cents a gallon in New Jersey compared to RFG using MTBE and by 7 cents a gallon compared to conventional gasoline used outside of the metropolitan areas required use of RFG. I'll be in Manhattan later; is gasohol described as such when sold in such a blend or will the change be transparent to the consumer? --------- What's with these two contradictory comments in the SI post? 1) Dinneen charges “Were it not for ethanol, gasoline prices would be going through the roof!” 2) He adds 10% ethanol is now being blended in about 30% of the gasoline in the country that converts to roughly 3% of the total gasoline supply, not enough to have any influence on price. The contradiction makes Dinneen appear a bit over the top, would you not agree?