Any idea why it is so hard to find ethanol free fuel in Texas? Kind of curious because we thankfully have that option here in OK about anywhere. Here in town probably 1/3 of the stations are ethanol free. Ethanol laced fuel is such a disastrous scam.

Texas stations unlike those in Oklahoma and other states, have no say so forOpting out of ethanol distribution as it is mandated by texas by region..

If someone transported and distributed non - ethanol mixed gas into a Texas stations storage tanks in a mandated ethanol blended region, it would be breaking the law. It is not federal epa, but a Texas state agency that determines the regions and dates they must switch to 10 % ethanol blend. Texas as have all states has been on a timetable for the last several years for converting slowly over to ethanol blended fuels. Other states too like Texas must also meet increasing federal requirements for ethanol, but they are not using a region by region implementation.

the Act increases the amount of biofuel (usually ethanol) that must be mixed with gasoline sold in the United States to 4 billion US gallons (15,000,000 m3) by 2006, 6.1 billion US gallons (23,000,000 m3) by 2009 and 7.5 billion US gallons (28,000,000 m3) by 2012;[1] two years later, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 extended the target to 36 billion US gallons (140,000,000 m3) by 2022.[2]

Thanks, ChuChu. You're exactly right, the mandate was included in the Energy Act of 2005.



It looks like we can blame Bush, Cheney, and Obama (he voted for it). Now it will take an act of Congress to get out of it. Not likely as we would have to fight the corn/ethanol lobby. Note that that lobby will be getting something like $18Bil in subsidies per year.