EPA talks tough on use of illegal ethanol blends

Marion Star.com

By PHILIP BRASHER • Gannett News Service • August 23, 2008

WASHINGTON - At $3.35 a gallon, a blend of gasoline being sold at some stations around Watertown, S.D., looks like a bargain.

Legally, most motorists can't buy it. It contains 30 percent ethanol. And under federal law, that kind of fuel can't be put in a car or truck that was not made to run on more than 10 percent ethanol, the legal limit for conventional cars.

Some motorists are filling up with the E30 blend anyway.

"Yes, there is some of that going on," said Gary French, general manager of the Sioux Valley Cooperative, which sells the fuel at four locations. "There really is no way we can police that."

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