E85 Filling Stations in the United States
E85, sometimes called flex fuel, is an alternative fuel that can be used in many of today’s non-hybrid cars. One of the main benefits of E85 is that it is much more environmentally-friendly than gasoline. Another prominent benefit is that E85 comes from renewable energy sources; E85 can be produced from corn, grains, sugarcane and even potatoes.Â
E85 Filling Station Facts
If you have a flex-fuel capable vehicle, you may have discovered that finding a filling station that sells E85 can be difficult. According to the 7/17/2008 update on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy website, there are currently 1,519 filling stations in the United States that dispense E85 fuel.
States without an E85 Filling Station
Even though the US has more than 1,500 E85-equipped filling stations, there are six states that do not have E85 available. If you are a resident of Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, Rhode Island or Vermont, you will not be able to benefit from E85 fuels.
States with the Most E85 Stations
The five states with the most E85 filling stations make up more than 53% of the total E85 stations in the United States. Minnesota is at the top of this list with 339 stations followed by Illinois with 180, Indiana with 107, Wisconsin with 95 and Iowa with 85 for a total of 810 E85 stations in those five states.
Finding an E85 Station in Your Area
If you have a vehicle capable of using E85 you can easily find a station in your area on the web. The Department of Energy’s Alternative Fueling Station Locator allows you to enter your address and will provide you with a list of stations in your area. In addition to finding E85 stations, the locator will also search for biodiesel, compressed natural gas (CNG), electric, hydrogen, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (propane) filling stations.
For those that have a vehicle equipped to use E85, finding a filling station in some parts of the country has been a big hurdle. With the useful tools located on the Department of Energy website, you should now be able to more readily take advantage of all of the benefits of E85 flex fuel.
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GM ’s sudden stewardship of the environment is simply a way to continue to make gas guzzlers thanks to E85 an extremely inefficient fuel. The CAFE standards call for all car companies to achieve an average MPG for all vehicles. I believe the most recent number is 27 MPG. Well if you make the biggest money off of 10 miles per gallon SUV’s you would hate to say good bye to them wouldn’t you?
The CAFE standards has a loophole, that being that an E85 vehicle operating on E85 miles per gallon are ONLY figured against the actual amount of gasoline in the blend (15%) if you divide 100% fuel by 15% gasoline you get the multiplier to the mpg (666) therefore a gas guzzling 10 MPG SUV is given credit for 66.6 MPG. If you sell one SUV like this you can have 5 vehicles only achieving 20 MPG and this gas guzzling SUV and you average more than 27 MPG overall while not one of their vehicles really met the standard.
GM is not the only one taking advantage of this free ride Ford and Chrysler are too. The big three are heading down the toilet and this is just their hands clinging to the rim.
Thanks for the explanation!
[...] in Your Area Biodiesel filling stations are found in more states than E85 filling stations.
well great for GM! and Ford, and Chrysler. with the exception of the crown victoria, grand marquis, and town car, there are no more full size RWD american sedans, making trucks and SUVS the only platform where a large, semi easy to work on vehicle has the ability to be built. cars have been running so clean since the 80’s-90’s it rediculas, but the EPA has to keep pushing the envelope, instead of going after the real polluters like power plants and factorys, the result of this being boring, not fun to drive cars, that all look the same, can not be worked on by the average home mechanic (who is also going by the wayside these days) 90% of the population are sheep, you’ll believe the first thing you hear, and make it gospel, and force it down everyone elses throat till they agree with you. do me a favor, go buy a Prius, or some other TOYota, call up Al Gore, and go enjoy a picnic inside a nuclear reactor. i have been researching alternitive fuels for about a decade, then all of a sudden, all these yahoos jump on the band wagon, which is now why the industry that was spun off of e85 has corrupted the hell out of that too, making it if anything worse than the oil industry. how else in 05, when gas was holding even at 2.25ish, and e85 was 1.25…ish, then gas jumped almost overnight to 3.65 a gallon, e85 remained about the same, as it should, cause ITS ONLY 15% GAS!!! well fast forward to today, no mater the cost of corn, (which i am aware, went up significantly afterr that boom) e85 always seems to be 50-75 cents less than gas.
money, money money MONEY
welcome to another corrupt industry.
thank God those of us who can think on our own are
still miles ahead of you in this subject, and about every other aspect of life.
and no, i am not someone trying to bash e85, or any other form of alternitive fuel, no i am not defending big oil, no i do not think global warming is a complete hoax, though VERY over exagerated. i am just tired of stupid people