| one E85 pump since arriving in Miami, and it is WAY out of the way. There were none when I left OKC, and I saw none along the way during a recent road trip to SC from Miami to pick up a DD. Talking to non-Z friends who also are car guys the E85 pumps are still hard to come by in their area as well. I think TX car guys do not realize how spoiled they are in every aspect of car guyness.
Plus it may seem like "overblowing it" but it is a fact that the only reason E85 even exists in gas stations is due to federal government interventionism due to lobbying by those who seek to profit off an otherwise inferior fuel solution for general purposes. If US manufacturers weren't getting a treat from the government for making E85 flexible cars, then they wouldnt be making them at all, and then the pumps wouldnt exist. E85 reduces fuel mileage, if manufacturers do not receive exemptions for flex-fuel cars, then they hinder their ability to meet the very high mileage requirements that are due to be met in the near future, and would not produce them. So if you dont prepare your car to be fully flex fuel capable, then you run the long-term risk of being screwed the next election cycle. The majority of flexfuel cars are gov/fleet vehicles, meaning once the goodies from the government stop, the market dries up and the pumps become relatively useless.
I remember when Hurricane Katrina resulted in refineries going off line in 2005, the vast majority of gas stations in Oklahoma had 93 as premium. Then the places they were getting it from were not producing it any longer and the all switched to 91. Only one station in OKC offered 93. I believe the next closest station was over 50 miles away. Sure it is in range, but do you really want to drive that far out of your way if your normal source dries up or shuts down? PITA Again, I think TX car guys have askewed view on this because it sounds like E85 is much more readily available in the fuel/energy capital of the western hemisphere.
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