Shell Premium Plus Gas?

[Northern Runner]

A great place to get ethanol free gas if you live in the sticks like I do is at your local Co-Op. Here's the list I use to find Ethanol free gas.
http://pure-gas.org/

 

[Runner 68]

Are you saying that the brewery is ethanol free?

No Photon but I did go by there (12 breweries in my town) and I did fill the tank.

 

[Moparsmitty]

A great place to get ethanol free gas if you live in the sticks like I do is at your local Co-Op. Here's the list I use to find Ethanol free gas.
http://pure-gas.org/

I find it very ironic that the only place around here that you can get ethanol free gasoline is at the Farmers Co-op. They want to be subsidized for growing corn that they sell to subsidized ethanol refiners, but they don't want to put gasoline with ethanol in their own equipment.

 

[moparedtn]

That dreadful decision to divert corn to ethanol production made prices at the grocery store go nuts, too.
The people involved in that decision should be strung up for that alone.

 

[Northern Runner]

I find it very ironic that the only place around here that you can get ethanol free gasoline is at the Farmers Co-op. They want to be subsidized for growing corn that they sell to subsidized ethanol refiners, but they don't want to put gasoline with ethanol in their own equipment.

At least the farmers I know don't normally sell directly to the ethanol refineries unless they are sure they'll get a monetary benefit for doing so. Most just sell the grain to the seed mill and then the mill will then eventually sell it to whomever they wish. Corn isn't really the cheapest crop to grow either. $385 an acre if you just factor in seed and spray. Then if you are renting, push the cost per acre up even more! Remember, they don't just farm for the fun of it! They have to make money to pay for the essentials too so they'll play the game like the rest of us would!

 

[Moparsmitty]

At least the farmers I know don't normally sell directly to the ethanol refineries unless they are sure they'll get a monetary benefit for doing so. Most just sell the grain to the seed mill and then the mill will then eventually sell it to whomever they wish. Corn isn't really the cheapest crop to grow either. $385 an acre if you just factor in seed and spray. Then if you are renting, push the cost per acre up even more! Remember, they don't just farm for the fun of it! They have to make money to pay for the essentials too so they'll play the game like the rest of us would!

Don't get me wrong, I don't blame individual farmers for growing whatever they think that they can sell on an open market for the best price. That's just good business. What I have a problem with is the government stepping in with regulations and subsidies to try to control or direct a market to the benefit of certain farm corporations and their lobbyists. The market for farm products or any other commodity should only be controlled by natural supply and demand and not be manipulated by outside forces like ethanol is today. JMHO.

 

[moparedtn]

 

[BIGSHCLUNK]

There's one or two places in town where you can buy "non ethanol" gas. But as forshell or Mobil or Speedway.... ppphhhhtttt it came out of the same holding tank....