There are still places around here where you can purchase ethanol free gasoline...my uncle boats up to a marina in Hudson that sells it, but like most marina fuels you do pay a premium for it.
And yes, unleaded gasoline is federally mandated to have up to 10% ethanol blended into it. The EPA wants to soon push it to 15%, once they prove it will benefit the cause.
My thought on ethanol fuel is this...and I do not ask anybody to agree with me, it is simply my opinion. The whole ethanol deal is all about reducing our foreign dependancy on crude oil...but at what cost? We dont live in the 60's anymore where there are vast areas of farm land to be had to grow an ample amount of corn to provide for our country in the long term. Corn prices, especially corn for feed are extremely high already, so I believe that in someways, the demand for corn has already affected farmers in the cattle industry...it has for years...to the point where they are already growing their own corn for silage, simply to reduce operating costs...and the US has not even tipped the edge of where they want ethanol based fuels to be.
I fear that it will get to the point that if the US Government were to mandate ethanol fuels to where they really want it, we will simply be giving up our foreign dependancy on crude and gaining a foreign dependancy for corn, to produce fuel with and we would have to start importing corn from overseas to make up for what we need.
I have read where the price for feed corn could rise nearly $0.63 per pushel by the year 2014, due to the demand for ethanol based fuels.
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