Saturday, September 20, 2008

Maybe I spoke too soon...

I just drove by the BP on Callahan Rd and their 100% gasoline sign was gone. I will try to check some of the other known ethanol free gas stations and update this post with my findings. Maybe I'll even get some more specifics about this new law and what it really means.

Update:
Unless my hunch is wrong, I have more bad news. I just went by the Citgo and Connoco on Kingston Pike that have signs advertising 100% gasoline... Both were completely out of gas. I'm afraid that when they do fill up again, it will be E-10. I'm still running on the same tank of gas, but my fuel light is on, and I've gone 368 miles so far on 100% gasoline. I was going to try to fill up again on 100%, but it is starting to look like that is going to be impossible. There is only one more station within 5-10 miles that I am aware of that may possibly have 100% gasoline, and it's in the opposite direction that I need to drive after work...and it's in an inconvenient location as well. I may make an attempt to fill up there after work for the sake of my experiment, wish me luck...I might be walking part of the way, haha.

Here are some other people who have started to catch on:
Toyota Nation Forums
International Herald Tribune
Lawnsite.com

Why is there nothing official about what is going on??

Update (9/23/08 8:05 pm):
I paid a visit to the Shell in Oak Ridge, and they were completely out of gas, so I had to drive to a station that only had E-10. I drove 378.3 miles on 16.57 gallons of 100% gasoline. That works out to 22.83 mpg. Not quite a 10% boost in mpg, but I only got to run 1 tank full, and that means there was probably some lingering ethanol in my tank.

I don't think there are any stations left in Knoxville with 100% gas left in their tanks...

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