gonavy
03-08-2006, 10:31 PM
Well, the EPA's dropping the oxygenate requirement is having an immediate effect on the East Coast-
Colonial pipeline (one of the primary pipes for the entire coast up to NY) will stop sending gasoline with MTBE starting this week, with the pipe to be basically cleared of all grades with MTBE by early April (it takes up to 21 days to get fuel from Houston to NY). All gasoline shipped will be for blending at the terminal end with ethanol, or not oxygenated at all. (Gas cannot be sent thru pipelines preblended with ETOH because of water intrusion- a major factor why MTBE was often preferred)
So if your area is not an E10 region (few on the East Coast), and the terminal/distributors by you are not yet equipped to blend in ethanol, you will get pure, straight, unoxygenated gasoline. Good for MPGs...
Interesting how the market is eliminating MTBE even without the states requiring it. So many factors at play there.
Oh, and from reading their ship plan very roughly, the summer fuel (high vapor pressure) will start to pump from Houston about next week. So it will be in your tank about 3-4 weeks later. Tbaleno, you were asking about that in another thread?
http://www.colpipe.com/home.asp
Colonial pipeline (one of the primary pipes for the entire coast up to NY) will stop sending gasoline with MTBE starting this week, with the pipe to be basically cleared of all grades with MTBE by early April (it takes up to 21 days to get fuel from Houston to NY). All gasoline shipped will be for blending at the terminal end with ethanol, or not oxygenated at all. (Gas cannot be sent thru pipelines preblended with ETOH because of water intrusion- a major factor why MTBE was often preferred)
So if your area is not an E10 region (few on the East Coast), and the terminal/distributors by you are not yet equipped to blend in ethanol, you will get pure, straight, unoxygenated gasoline. Good for MPGs...
Interesting how the market is eliminating MTBE even without the states requiring it. So many factors at play there.
Oh, and from reading their ship plan very roughly, the summer fuel (high vapor pressure) will start to pump from Houston about next week. So it will be in your tank about 3-4 weeks later. Tbaleno, you were asking about that in another thread?
http://www.colpipe.com/home.asp