Central Valley gets California’s second E85 gas pumps

TULARE
January 11, 2008 12:09pm

Motorists traveling Highway 99 in the Central Valley will soon have a very different place to refuel, if their vehicles can handle it.

Two pumps that will dispense E85 fuel are being installed at a Shell gas station just east of the freeway in Tulare

When operation in mid-February, the Tulare gas station will be only the second one in the entire state to sell E85 fuel to the public.

Common in the Midwest, E85 is a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline.

Many cars are now capable of using it. It’s estimated California has about 300,000 of these flex-fuel vehicles.

Since the only operating E85 public pumps are at a gas station in San Diego, it’s thought that few of the 300,000 vehicles use anything other than regular gasoline.

Comments on this story

Mark Pallette 1/13/08 9:18 AM
A station in Brentwood, Conservfuel (www.conservfuel.com), currently has two E85 pumps operating. The station in Tulare, when operational, will be the third gas station in California to have an E85 dispenser.