At Kansas Station, E15 Fuel Reaches the Masses

New York Times: Intended as an additive to gasoline, ethanol in modern times was meant to stretch America's fuel supplies, much as a cook uses chicken stock to increase the volume of a soup. By federal mandate, ethanol makes up about 10 percent of most fuel that motorists buy at the pump. Unfortunately for ethanol makers, Americans are driving fewer miles and upgrading to more efficient cars — or to continue the analogy, eating less soup. So ethanol makers want to change the longstanding recipe, trying to persuade...

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