No ethanol in Chicago area?

[pstans]

I live in Iowa and use 89 octane that has ethanol in it. It is cheaper than the lower grade because of the ethanol. I am not talking about E85. It is hard to find stations that sells E85 here in Iowa, but there are more and more showing up.

I went to Chicago this weekend and in the western suburbs I got gas and they didn't have ethanol. I was surprised. They grow corn in Illinois, so I just assumed that they'd have ethanol like we do in Iowa.

Do other parts of the country have ethanol or is it an Iowa and other farm state thing?

[xray s]

1. what suburb were you in?

The last time I checked the whole state is 10% ethanol. no exceptions.

[pstans]

3. Naperville or Wheaton

Not sure exactly, kind of hard to tell where one 'burb ends and some more sprawl starts.

In Iowa there are stickers that say Ethanol and has a picture of a corn stalk and that says supporting Iowa. I didn't see anything like that at the pump, but it could have had ethanol in it.

[xray s]

4. maybe the sticker wore off the pump

believe me, ADM owns Illinois.

[Why Syzygy]

2. as far as I know

we don't have that option in Texas.

[firefox]

5. NC here

I wanted to ask about gasohol about a week ago when a story ran on local news about gasohol in Charlotte. I never even heard of E85 or knew that some cars were designed to burn 85% alcohol fuel. They said it was twenty cents cheaper when gas the most common price was at $3 a gallon. The 10% alcohol was said to be the same price as pure gasoline.

They said that a company out of Shelby, NC had five stations and was expecting to reach 50.

[madrchsod]

6. gasoline is blended in illinois

it may be regular ,premium or both..