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Map of Airports with Autogas Now Online

Map of Airports with Autogas Now Online

Ethanol-Free Autogas is what most pilots want for their aircraft, but it is more and more difficult to find. Dean Billing has made find good fuel a lot easier by putting together a map showing airports in the USA that offer the good stuff. To check out the map yourself, visit: If your airport is ...

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AFPM Warns of Adverse Effects of E15 Use

AFPM Warns of Adverse Effects of E15 Use

Yet someone else came out warning about the problems with alcohol in our fuel. This time it is the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers or AFPM. WASHINGTON – American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers President Charles T. Drevna today issued the following response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision paving the way for the sale of gasoline ...

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Cloudy Skies Ahead for Ethanol

Cloudy Skies Ahead for Ethanol

This story from Kent Misegades is good news, sort of. Rules set by the central planning committees in Washington for what we can buy and burn in our engines seem to be going sideways since they can’t respond quickly enough to market forces. Somehow, I suspect that it will still be the consumer that will ...

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Kent Misegades, Aviation Fuel Club (4/12/11) (Part 1 of 2)

Kent Misegades, Aviation Fuel Club (4/12/11) (Part 1 of 2)

(Part 1 of 2) Kent Misegades catches us up with the news about efforts to make ethanol-free fuel more available to pilots. We talk about the Aviation Fuel Club and the petition to the FAA and the EPA seeking to ban blending ethanol in premium gasoline.

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Kent Misegades, Aviation Fuel Club (4/12/11) (Part 2 of 2)

Kent Misegades, Aviation Fuel Club (4/12/11) (Part 2 of 2)

(Part 2 of 2) Kent Misegades catches us up with the news about efforts to make ethanol-free fuel more available to pilots. We talk about the Aviation Fuel Club and the petition to the FAA and the EPA seeking to ban blending ethanol in premium gasoline.

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The Blending Wall Remains Intact Despite Misguided E15 Waiver

The Blending Wall Remains Intact Despite Misguided E15 Waiver

Many of our readers may have heard that the EPA has granted an E15 waiver for 2001-2006 autos and light duty trucks, in addition to the former E15 waiver granted back in October for 2007 and newer vehicles. Theoretically this means that about 2/3 of the auto fleet in the US could pump E15 into ...

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Avgas in 2011 — Logic Will Prevail

Avgas in 2011 — Logic Will Prevail

As an engineer and a pilot, I believe that logic, combined with the amazing ability of free markets to decide between winners and loser, generally prevails, and even when do-gooders, politicians and bureaucrats do their best to throw a wrench into the works. Ben Sclair entertained us last month with some predictions for the New ...

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Purdue Researcher: Ethanol Has Peaked

Purdue Researcher: Ethanol Has Peaked

Has the use of ethanol in the U.S. reached its saturation point? Yes, or says the conclusion of a Purdue University agricultural economics professor who has studied federal data about how ethanol is consumed and about the growth potential in the industry to meet an upcoming federal mandate for renewable fuel use. Wally Tyner says ...

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Wasting Tax Dollars on Ethanol

Wasting Tax Dollars on Ethanol

You know that your political agenda is in trouble when the Tea Party movement agrees with MoveOn, and conservative Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) agrees with former Vice President and environmental activist Al Gore. This is the situation that the ethanol lobby now faces in Washington, with the 45 cent a gallon ethanol credit set to expire at ...

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Second Thoughts on Ethanol

Second Thoughts on Ethanol

In the rapidly-developing debate over future aviation fuels, Mogas is gaining in popularity, as seen in the hundreds of comments on our petition to the EPA to ban the use of ethanol in Premium (91 AKI octane) gasoline. Now it seems that the EPA itself and even former Vice President Al Gore are having second ...