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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From:
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Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:33
PM
To: Online
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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
From:
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Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:57
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To: Paul Double; Online
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Subject: Re: FW:
[Winona] gas
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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