E85 availability increasing across US, especially outside Midwest

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Filed under: Ethanol (http://green.autoblog.com/category/ethanol/), USA (http://green.autoblog.com/category/usa/) http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/GLOB/crop/3112x2085+0+134/resize/628x417!/format/jpg/quality/85/http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/cf7fa1a9d75bd2ed67c6a96dbb517056/6fe3e940062d4c8383dd75f7efd47322.jpeg E85 (http://green.autoblog.com/tag/e85/). It's not just for flyover states anymore. That could be the newest slogan of the 85-percent ethanol blend now that the biofuel is proliferating in areas other than the Midwestern corn-growing states. The Midwest's share of E85 stations fell to 36 percent last year, down from 54 percent in 2007. According to the US Energy Information Administration (http://www.eia.gov/) (EIA), which reports that the number of the country's E85 stations jumped to 2,625 last year, up quite a bit from the 1,229 that existed in 2007, the first year such numbers were tracked. And while Minnesota remains the state with the largest number of E85 pumps, the Midwest's share of E85 stations fell to 36 percent last year, down from 54 percent in 2007. Opponents of higher ethanol blends have gotten progressively louder as the government has pushed for more availability of a 15-percent ethanol blend (today's standard gasoline has 10-percent ethanol). Recreational vehicle makers and, naturally, Big Oil, have rallied the most (http://green.autoblog.com/2013/12/19/higher-ethanol-blends-create-health-safetly-risks-says-big-oil/) against the provision of E15 and E85. Still, the number of E85 pumps in both California and New York have jumped more than sixfold in the past seven years. Florida and Georgia also had some pretty substantial jumps in E85 availability. The growth of E85 stations is so broad, in fact, that there are only two holdout states without E85 stations: Alaska and New Hampshire. Today, about one in every 50 US gas stations offers E85. Check out the EIA's press release below.Continue reading E85 availability increasing across US, especially outside Midwest (http://green.autoblog.com/2014/03/09/e85-availability-increasing-across-us-outside-midwest/) E85 availability increasing across US, especially outside Midwest (http://green.autoblog.com/2014/03/09/e85-availability-increasing-across-us-outside-midwest/) originally appeared on AutoblogGreen (http://green.autoblog.com) on Sun, 09 Mar 2014 09:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/). Permalink (http://green.autoblog.com/2014/03/09/e85-availability-increasing-across-us-outside-midwest/) | Email this (http://green.autoblog.com/forward/20845589/) | Comments (http://green.autoblog.com/2014/03/09/e85-availability-increasing-across-us-outside-midwest/#comments) More... (http://green.autoblog.com/2014/03/09/e85-availability-increasing-across-us-outside-midwest/)

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E85 availability increasing across US, especially outside Midwest

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E85. It's not just for flyover states anymore. That could be the newest slogan of the 85-percent ethanol blend now that the biofuel is proliferating in areas other than the Midwestern corn-growing states.

The Midwest's share of E85 stations fell to 36 percent last year, down from 54 percent in 2007.

According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), which reports that the number of the country's E85 stations jumped to 2,625 last year, up quite a bit from the 1,229 that existed in 2007, the first year such numbers were tracked. And while Minnesota remains the state with the largest number of E85 pumps, the Midwest's share of E85 stations fell to 36 percent last year, down from 54 percent in 2007.

Opponents of higher ethanol blends have gotten progressively louder as the government has pushed for more availability of a 15-percent ethanol blend (today's standard gasoline has 10-percent ethanol). Recreational vehicle makers and, naturally, Big Oil, have rallied the most against the provision of E15 and E85. Still, the number of E85 pumps in both California and New York have jumped more than sixfold in the past seven years. Florida and Georgia also had some pretty substantial jumps in E85 availability. The growth of E85 stations is so broad, in fact, that there are only two holdout states without E85 stations: Alaska and New Hampshire. Today, about one in every 50 US gas stations offers E85. Check out the EIA's press release below.Continue reading E85 availability increasing across US, especially outside Midwest

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