Fuel Pump of the Future - AutoblogGreen FEATURE
Ray Holan of AutoblogGreen
took a field trip to a new gas station in Oberlin, OH where the fuel pump of the future is about to be installed. Full Circle Fuels, which you might remember as the service station that
performed an SVO conversion on a 2002 VW Jetta we reviewed,
is working on a clever new fuel pump that will be able to dispense E85 as well as any biodiesel blend a driver desires,
including B2, B5, B10, B20 or whatever ratio is required. The article goes further into the background of the station’s proprieters than we were able to in our review of the SVO Jetta and really shows what the green gas station of the future might look like.
[Source: AutoblogGreen]
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TheOne442 11:57AM (5/04/2006)
This looks like a very good idea. Does anyone know how many operations there are like this across the U.S.?
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Vinny Falcone 1:12PM (5/04/2006)
For a while I have been wondering. Does anyone really need or want "mid-grade" gasoline? I fill up once a week wondering.."Why couldn't they just put E85 in those middle pumps"?
Why don't we offer incentives to the gas station owners to convert the center pump to E85 or bio-diesel? This whole argument of whose at fault for the rising prices is silly when nobody seems to want to attack this with a solution.
There is a time to think and there is a time to act. Let's act now!!!
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Marshall Montchalin 10:07AM (5/05/2006)
I have been driving with added Acetone since March 2, and I am excited by alternative fuels that might be better than gas. I wonder if E-85 burns hotter or colder than gasoline?
I also wonder what needs to be done to my aging auto to burn E-85. Is it something that can be retrofitted to old favorite cars? Thanks.
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