Ethanol Mandate for Iowa?

Jay, maybe one of your friendly Iowa neighbors who wanted to screw you
for buzzing his house with your noisy airplane raised the prices by 90%,
but 22% was the average in the state of Iowa. On 9/1, the average price
of a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline in Iowa was $2.47. It peaked at
$3.03 and fell back to $2.61.

http://iowastategasprices.com/retail_price_chart.aspx

The US DOE and EPA has a site that reports gasoline prices in the US. We
found it very useful putting together a trip earlier this year.

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/gasprices/states/

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...

Unprecedented is a touch strong. Katrina sent crude up all of $5 per
barrel to $70. It has back to $65.82. From May, 2005 to September,
2005,
crude went from $50 to $65 per barrel.

Really? Isn't it funny (sad?) that the gas stations around here used
Katrina as an excuse to increase prices by 90%?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay, maybe one of your friendly Iowa neighbors who wanted to screw you
for buzzing his house with your noisy airplane raised the prices by 90%,
but 22% was the average in the state of Iowa. On 9/1, the average price
of a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline in Iowa was $2.47. It peaked at
$3.03 and fell back to $2.61.

http://iowastategasprices.com/retail_price_chart.aspx

An interesting site, which (in this case, anyway) appears to be
remarkably wrong.

I buy a lot of gas, between five vehicles, an airplane, and half a
dozen gas-powered lawn implements. I've got a receipt that says I paid
$1.89 per gallon on 8/5/05 for regular unleaded gas, while the chart
shows a price of $2.05. At the height of the Katrina panic, I paid
$3.25 per gallon, while the chart shows a peak of just $3.00 per
gallon.

I know it's showing an "average" price, so variances are expected, but
that seems like a lot of variance. Also, Iowa City routinely has the
highest gas prices in the region, so the fact that we were far cheaper
than the "average" shown on 8/5 seems especially odd.

Regardless, the price (around here, anyway) went up 72% in a period of
a few weeks, yet oil prices only went up a smidge. (Of course, as we
already hashed over in previous posts, most of the price run up was due
to refining capacity and the market over-shooting a sustainable price.)


More to the point for this thread: The difference between car gas and
avgas has now grown to more than $1.00 difference. If we lose the
ability to burn car gas, a lot of pilots won't be able to fly nearly as
often -- and that hurts everyone in GA.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
Regardless, the price (around here, anyway) went up 72% in a period of
a few weeks, yet oil prices only went up a smidge. (Of course, as we
already hashed over in previous posts, most of the price run up was due
to refining capacity and the market over-shooting a sustainable price.)




Well this was covered quite well both in this group and the media. The
reason gas went up was because of lose and feared lose of refining ability
not the price of crude.

"sfb" wrote in message news:36i_e.6709$WT3.2933@trnddc03...
Jay, maybe one of your friendly Iowa neighbors who wanted to screw you for buzzing his house with your noisy airplane
raised the prices by 90%, but 22% was the average in the state of Iowa. On 9/1, the average price of a gallon of
unleaded regular gasoline in Iowa was $2.47. It peaked at $3.03 and fell back to $2.61.

http://iowastategasprices.com/retail_price_chart.aspx

The US DOE and EPA has a site that reports gasoline prices in the US. We found it very useful putting together a trip
earlier this year.

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/gasprices/states/



Which is exactly why ethanol is being phased in as a fuel source in this country. Has anyone been watching Brazil?
Apparently they have reduced their dependence on foreign oil to something less than 50% of their total consumption by
going over to alcohol, in some cases running 100%. The ethanol is pumped right alongside the gasoline. They make it from
sugar cane, very effective....