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Old 07-20-2010, 02:34 PM
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Redwood city next for E85 station!!

About time some San mateo county get some corn! Are first station will open in September!! This is the email they sent me

Good Afternoon, Matt:
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We are so pleased to hear your enthusiasm for alternative fuel!* We will be opening a Clean Fuel Point in Redwood City this November, so you can access E85 flex fuel for your WRX!
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So please ask for it and they will bring it to us!! San Mateo people let them know you want it and it will come!
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You were all exited when you called me yesterday.. Time to see what that GT3076R can do on the corn juice.
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Damnit I need to get an engine built by Ed before I can run the Corn!!! Err
Matt you needa let me get a ride In that thing when you get it tuned.

wheres Is the station going to be In Redwood city?
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Originally Posted by 07wrx4life
Damnit I need to get an engine built by Ed before I can run the Corn!!! Err
Matt you needa let me get a ride In that thing when you get it tuned.

wheres Is the station going to be In Redwood city?
the whole point to 105 octane fuel is that it doesn't detonate. The whole point behind subaru hypercast pistons breaking off ringlands is detonation.

I think you should be fine running e85 without a built engine. Stock crank and rods are forged.

Hoping this movement gets squashed soon though: E85 is the most retarded 'alternative fuel' ever created and inflates edible corn prices in places where people need it as a foodsource.
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^ well if you are that "baller" to spend $7.00 a gallon for 105 then go for it! I would rather run clean burning fule and pay $2.50 a gallon for 105 octane. E85 is great and works very well in are cars

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now all we need to do is get it in san francisco
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now all we need to do is get it in san francisco
Email them and tell em you want it!

It's getting closer now for sure. The station in Oakland and Redwood City are a great start.
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Originally Posted by knock
Hoping this movement gets squashed soon though: E85 is the most retarded 'alternative fuel' ever created and inflates edible corn prices in places where people need it as a foodsource.
Huh???? You must have proof...
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Originally Posted by 04caliwrx
^ well if you are that "baller" to spend $7.00 a gallon for 105 then go for it! I would rather run clean burning fule and pay $2.50 a gallon for 110 octane. E85 is great and works very well in are cars
right, but I'm talking about it as a sustainable fuel source, the primary reason for it's implementation. Yeah it's great to have 105 octane at 2.50/gal but I cringe whenever another pump is added the the e85 infrastructure. Until corn is eliminated from ethanol production I'm going to keep baggin on the fuel.

And as far as it being a 'clean burning' fuel get real. No cat != clean anything.
Are cars should have cats so are air is pleasant to breath.
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Originally Posted by XxSti05xX
Huh???? You must have proof...
here you go dawg

"We anticipate appreciation in corn prices over the next year owing to rising fuel-related demand and an expected return to trend yields, which will likely leave U.S. and global stocks-to-use ratios in decline." said the investment bank. "Current prices are providing a compelling opportunity for consumers to layer in upside protection."

Corn's stocks-to-use ratio is a gauge of supply and demand, and the "fuel-related" demand Goldman references is an allusion to the amount of ethanol that's blended with regular gasoline. The U.S. government could soon mandate that regular gasoline be comprised of 15% ethanol, up from 10% currently. That would introduce another 7 billion gallons of corn-fed fuel to the gasoline market.
http://moneymorning.com/2010/05/12/corn-prices-2/

just a quick google search and found this current news article as backing.
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Originally Posted by knock
right, but I'm talking about it as a sustainable fuel source, the primary reason for it's implementation. Yeah it's great to have 105 octane at 2.50/gal but I cringe whenever another pump is added the the e85 infrastructure. Until corn is eliminated from ethanol production I'm going to keep baggin on the fuel.

And as far as it being a 'clean burning' fuel get real. No cat != clean anything.
Are cars should have cats so are air is pleasant to breath.
A catless car on e85 will be just as clean as a stock car with all cats, I have a friend that works at a smog place and tested a catless evo with e85 and it did a better job then the stock cat evo dis
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I'm just happy to get e85 close to me!
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And as far as it being a 'clean burning' fuel get real. No cat != clean anything.
Are cars should have cats so are air is pleasant to breath.
E85 actually does burn extremely cleanly. I've been working on tuning it for emissions using a gas analyzer and you can get the stuff to run well within the factory emissions specs without any sort of cat .

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