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

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"