--- David Locklear <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip>
> But there is no E-85. [ I still haven't seen an E-85 pump yet, and
> I have been keeping my eyes open for one. ] Nor did I see an(y)
free
> internet
> station(s).
<snip>
David, you're too far south. I just returned from Utah and Colorado.
Both Nebraska and Iowa have signs on the highway that indicate if the
exit (this case I-80) has E-85 stations and then there were signs on
the streets pointing the direction if it wasn't next to the interstate.
I even saw one of the new ethanol plants out in the sticks of Iowa
while driving down to Appanoose Co, from Montezuma. Makes sense in the
two biggest corn(y) states. Texas isn't known for their corn belt, as I
hear it.
Iowa's rest-stops all seem to have free wi-fi and advertise the fact on
their signage along the interstate. Seems most of the Texas rest-stop
budget went to that one on I-40 my dad tells me about out near
Amarillo. Calls it the Tom Delay memorial rest-area. Has bathroom
attendants that hand you a towel.
As for gasoline prices I'd previously find little difference between
Chicago and Utah & west Colorado prices when I first started going out
that direction 10 years ago. Chicago is running $3.50-ish and we were
finding gas the whole way there and back around $3.15. Think the least
we paid was $2.99 per gal, the most in Hanksville, UT was $3.45 a gal.
We did note a 10-cent jump at the station we used coming and going in
Kearney, NE though.
BTW, Shiner Bock is now available here in Chicago. WTF?
See all of you in Indiana in 63 days or in 2 months and 2 days.
-JackW!
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