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Is that a E98 ethanol blend or something? $47 for 5 gallons!?! holy crap, that's a rip off. You can buy 100% ethanol at regular gas stations in my state. The going price at the pump is about $2.00. You're paying the big bucks on 100 octane pure gasoline because it still has all the BTUs of energy that gas has. When you blend with ethanol you are losing 20-25% of that energy (recoverable with timing and such). So you either blend light (under 20% ethanol) or you tune for ethanol and pump more fuel to make up for the lost energy.

Name 5 states that have 5 stations that sell e100
 

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Name 5 states that have 5 stations that sell e100

Oklahoma (where I live)
Virginia show 45 stations (backed by the Clean Cities Act)
Colorado (Denver specifically) (apparently the same Clean Cities Act thing)

There's three with VERY lazy research. I would look into the Clean Cities Act and see which ones are part of it. Then you would have a better list.

BUT, you can also blend with E85 which is 88 octane fuel (15%) and Ethanol (85%) creating a fuel with over 105 octane. E85 is way more prevalent nationally.
 

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All my raceway friends use e100 or e98...and its always in a race gas drum. It isn't very common to see e85 in most of the country so I don't know if you take the horses in the back or what but ya better check yourself.

You know some guys thought that too when E100 first came here so they got those little test kits where you add water and it always came out to 98-100%
 

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Oklahoma (where I live)
Virginia show 45 stations (backed by the Clean Cities Act)
Colorado (Denver specifically) (apparently the same Clean Cities Act thing)

There's three with VERY lazy research. I would look into the Clean Cities Act and see which ones are part of it. Then you would have a better list.

BUT, you can also blend with E85 which is 88 octane fuel (15%) and Ethanol (85%) creating a fuel with over 105 octane. E85 is way more prevalent nationally.

You got 3 states out of 50(we won't even mention rural areas in those states) we arent talking e85 which is more common but most vehicles can't use because it requires so much to blend it stresses their fuel pump.

Annnnnd.....e85 while being MORE common....isn't very common. I had to carry 15 gallons of e85 in my sho trunk on road trips and I usually used 2/3 because I couldn't find e85 anywhere within reason. This being all along the east coast and over to the far reaches of ohio.
 

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Where ya from and do you have e100 available nearby? E85? How many stations and how close to home/work?
Sacramento, CA. E85 at countless stations. We have 1 station with Sunoco 100oct (not e100) at the pump, $10 a gallon. That's what I'm currently tuned for, but switching to e85 here when I finally get these injectors installed.
 
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Pump E100 - No. However numerous race shops sell VP, ect... Torco is local to me and I can buy it there. No need too.
Pump E-85 - Two Stations that test actual E85. They are independently owned and operated.
Pump E54/Flex Fuel - Half of the Chevrons in the Valley have tested E54 out of the pump for a couple of years now. Any commercial fuel station (Chevron, Texaco ect) have tested E54.

Arizona removed E85 from fuel pumps in 2016. They replaced it with Flex Fuel which is E54 here...so yeah.

Below is a picture from my E85/Flex Fuel finder for the Valley.
Screenshot 20200721 105931 Stations E85
 

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Connecticut, and not one flex fuel station in the state. 97 octane is offered at a shell station near me, but its not constant. 93 is available everywhere.
 

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So I'm near Pittsburgh and e85 is available but and this is a BIGGGG BUTT.... only the sheetz e85 tests close to e85. Everything else is like e51~. There's also 93 and higher at some places. But everyone I know that races anything swears by vp fuels.
 

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Got lots of E85 here in Omaha NE. I haven't seen any E100 pumps around here though.

E85 can range from 53% to 85% here, or at least I'm pretty sure that's the range. Some stations carry a blend you gotta test, others carry a specific blend that is never off by more than a couple %. The one I go to is a reliable 70% everytime.

That said we got some really crappy 93 here. Only two brands carry it and of the 2 only one is decentish. Still almost always have to blend in some E85.
 

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Where ya from and do you have e100 available nearby? E85? How many stations and how close to home/work?

There is 1 station I know of in MN that does e100 but it is crazy expensive and like 2 hours away from me. Otherwise e85 is everywhere around here, just on my drive home I probably pass 5 to 7 stations with e85. Most of them are e70+ from what I've seen, but there's only a couple that have e85/93 in one place, most are 91/e85.

EDIT: Minnoco Gas stations here also have Pump e30 there's lots of those around here too.
 
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