E-85 Now Sold At 1.7 % Of All U.S. Gas Stations

BY SUSAN ERLER
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The 85 percent ethanol, 15 percent gasoline blend E85 is available at close to 1,150 U.S. filling stations, 90 of them in Indiana, according to the E85 advocacy group the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition.

That's just a fraction of the estimated 200,000 stations nationwide.

More than half of those are operated by major oil producers, who have not embraced E85 sales, National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition executive director Phillip Lampert said.

"That's a big hurdle to overcome," Lampert said.

Nothwestern Indiana News, Sept.26, 2007