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Navigate to E85 using your Garmin or TomTom!Going green just got easier! Use our simple tool to load E85 stations to your Garmin or TomTom device. |
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You can now use your Garmin or TomTom GPS device to locate E85 stations all over the country. This data will let you upload E85 stations as special Points of Interest (POIs). Follow this link for directions.
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Sioux Falls finally has a ethanol blender pump. Kings Mart located on the corner of Cliff Avenue and Benson Road recently installed four pumps that allow consumers to choose E10, E30 or E85 blends of fuel. Read More.
More of Gary's men and women in blue could be driving green by spring. The Board of Works on Wednesday voted to advertise for vendors to provide up to 120 "flex fuel" and hybrid vehicles for the city's police department. Read More.
Thorntons Inc. has added E-85 fuel at a store located in New Albany, Ind. This will be the second station in the southern Indiana area to carry the environmentally friendly fuel. Read More.
Tomorrow night, President Obama will deliver his first State of the Union Address that will focus in large measure on job creation. The President will rightly target new public and private investments in clean energy and green jobs. Read More.
The Iowa ethanol industry plans to ask the legislature to pass a bill requiring that all motor gasoline in the state carry at least 10 percent ethanol. Read More.
The Chesapeake Bay Commission says a new report outlines the Chesapeake Bay watershed's biofuel potential. Read More.
What motor fuel is completely renewable, environmentally friendly and not only is domestic, but enhances the nations economy and energy independence? Ethanol of course! Read More.
The final report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the 2009 corn harvest is one for the record books. Despite poor planting conditions, a cool, wet growing season, and an abysmal harvest that still sees corn standing in fields, American farmers shattered records for both yield per acre and total production. Read More.
It has been quiet for months now, but 2010 may finally be the year the Volney ethanol plant kicks into full operation. Read More.
The folks at the Renewable Fuels Association have put together updates for the Tom-Tom and Garmin GPS devices that can add E85 stations to these handy units. Read More.
see moreEthanol is the only clean-burning liquid fuel available to replace oil used in our cars and light trucks. In 2008 we produced 9 billion gallons of ethanol, accounting for 7 percent of our gasoline sales. In doing so we eliminated the need for more than 300 million barrels of imported oil.
Ethanol is produced at refineries around the United States and delivered to markets in nearly every state. Looking for E85? Click here for a searchable map of E85 pumps near you.
Ethanol production occurs in hundreds of rural communities around the country, employing local residents in fields ranging from accounting to maintenance to chemistry and engineering. Farmer-owned cooperatives, private companies, publicly traded corporations and even oil interests are a few of the business models the ethanol industry encompasses.
Ethanol can be produced in a variety of methods using a host of resources including grains, grasses, wood waste and even garbage. Most familiar is the process through which sugars are extracted from these resources and fermented into ethanol.
