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Officials waive ethanol requirement to ease gas lines
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Officials waive ethanol requirement to ease gas lines
Hopefully this works!!
11/06/12) WOODBURY - Pain at the pump may finally ease due to the latest action taken by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The latest fuel issue isn't the lack of gas, but the shortage of ethanol that's required to mix with it.
"We have 10% ethanol that's blended in with gas," Long Island Gas Retailers Association President Kevin Beyer says. "The ethanol was running low, and even if we had the unleaded at the terminals, without the ethanol to blend it, they wouldn't be able to sell it."
Federal officials have now waived the ethanol requirement, which means delivery trucks no longer have to wait for it and can start to move to gas stations a bit faster.
Experts say Long Island should be seeing much shorter lines at the pumps by Saturday or Sunday.
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Officials waive ethanol requirement to ease gas lines
Good, they should...
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| Posted 11/6/12 7:10 PM |
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shadows
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Officials waive ethanol requirement to ease gas lines
I am praying this is true and things will get better soon. I find the gas issue so incredibly stressful. I can't imagine having this problem long-term...
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| Posted 11/6/12 8:49 PM |
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stinger
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Re: Officials waive ethanol requirement to ease gas lines
I read this on a comment on a yahoo article.
Why is there an ethanol shortage and does it have anything to do with Sandy??
Wasn't there a corn/ethanol shortage early this year? So, it's not a new thing...
Found this rather technical article but informative if you can follow...the third bullet mentions the ethanol waiver
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Message edited 11/6/2012 9:09:24 PM.
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| Posted 11/6/12 8:53 PM |
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