Cars that can use biodiesel are called
flex fuel vehicles, and most of the newer Fords on the street today are
flexfuel. The modification comes as standard equipment on them. Check
with your dealer if you own a Ford. I don’t know of another auto
company that took the initiative that Ford did, however. People can
invest in the modification at their own expense, though. Again, check
with your dealer.
Anne Morse
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Subject: FW: FW: [Winona] gas
Can anyone post a list of
the vehicles that can or can not use E85. Better yet is there a web site
that you can type in your vehicle and it will give you a yes or no? I use
synthetic oil in my Honda van but it does not recommend E85.
Paul Double
We have E85 and Bio
Diesel. Anyone interested can buy it at Service drive or 50 Riverview
drive. And the Bio diesel will be in all our stores in town next week and is
available for farm delivery immediately.
The weather situation has
closed refineries in the south and those pipelines run into the Chicago market
which includes Madison. Trucks that normally go to Madison from western
Wisconsin are coming over here and causing a strain on our supplies.
Remember also that when
retail customer run on the top half of their tank instead of the bottom it
creates artificial demand on a one shot basis. This creates
temporary demand in the supply system .,
Petroleum is also a
logistics business and having it in the wrong place makes for area shortages.
The sooner the coast refineries restart the sooner the situation will be back
to normal.
Tom Severson
Severson Oil Co.
P.O. Box 736
Winona, Mn. 55987
507 452 3402 ext 214
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Try www.biodiesel.org.
You will find lots of interesting stuff (if you look hard enough) regarding
"home brew" alternative fuels - diesel alternatives in this case.
Cooking fat to biodiesel does work. There is a biodiesel refinery near Jackson,
Mississippi producing the stuff for the commenrcial market. Incidently, when
one burns soybean-based biodiesel at a high enough ratio the exhaust
smells like popcorn. (corn/beans? something doesn't seem right, but that's
what they say).
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