05/05/26 Afternoon CommStock Report – Another Ethanol Pricing Opportunity for Consumers

Part 1 of 3 The picture below is of the FS blender’s pump that I filled my tank from Tuesday 4/28. I drive a Dodge Ram with a hemi-engine and use E-30. It is my second truck using E-30 after having put on well over 200,000 miles on the first with no engine trouble. The average price of gas was over $4 gallon nationally that day but locally E10 was still priced at $3.649 gallon in Spencer Iowa on its way higher. I bought E-30 for $2.999 gallon saving 65 cents a gallon compared to E-10. I am confused as to why consumers would not do that. Farmers, in particular, should be wise to the best choice of fuel blend. Why waste money? My truck holds 24 gallons or so when I fill up so that is $15.60 savings per tank…enough for McDonalds (or used to be). The current pricing advantage for E-30 was not the result of the war…as it has been there the whole time. E-10 replaced MTBE poison as a gasoline additive, it is an oxygenate, reduces smog and has higher octane. All of the physical benefits of ethanol are retained with higher blends but the…

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