Day Co. SD | Dirk Diggler - 6/9/2026 12:02
The fuel suppliers would lose a lot of money if e85 gained market share. If the fuel suppliers decided not to sell e85, everyone would want it. However, if they offer it, but at a price that is cost prohibitive, everyone will say that e85 doesn’t make financial sense. Let the consumer kill the demand. The ethanol plants need to get into to the retail business and circumvent the petroleum suppliers. IBEC IN Rensselaer Indiana has been doing this for years. E85 should be less than $2 at every pump on the United States right now.
I went to an investor meeting for a plant that wanted to start up. I asked about what their future distribution system was gonna look like. I was told by one of their blab guys, that petroleum and ethanol would coexist efficiently. It was going to be welcome by the petroleum distributors with open arms. Needless to say, my checkbook stayed in my pocket.
This was around 2002 to 2003. Detroit was starting to embrace flex fuel vehicles, and the ethanol boys thought they had already made the touchdown.
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E-85 Pricing at the Pump?
