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Originally Posted by stevejust
I read your post and I'm thinking, where's this guy been for the last three years?
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Where I come from, E10 is signed as E10. It's required by law.
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I would guess the huge decline you're seeing is more due to cold weather (which always drops mileage) than it is the ethanol.
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No because when I go back home to Maryland, I refuel with real gasoline, and then I'm back to a 300-mile tank.
It was only the drop in the tank that made me say, "Hmmm. Virginia seems to be selling ethanol," and a talk with station owners confirmed it. Some do; some don't.
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So what are your damages? It's not as if one company is selling you ethanol, and you're getting ripped off at one station but not others.
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Yes it is. The damage is an impact on my wallet of 9 cents instead of 10 cents per mile. The damage is I can no longer get home (on weekends) on a single tank, thus having to make an unplanned stop to refuel.
The damage is that I would have bought from the station across the street which is using NO ethanol in its fuel. A customer can not make informed choices, if the stores are not providing the needed information[/b] (whether they are selling E10 or gasoline).
Misleading a customer, and pretending to be selling one product while actually providing a different one, is bait-n-switch (or plain dishonest). Corporations like Walmart, JCPenney, and Paypal have been sued & fined for such practices. It was not legal for them to do it, and it sure as hell ain't legal for gas stations to do it either.
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I notice one of the stations just added a huge "10% ethanol" sticker.
They may have got caught by the Virginia inspectors, because
that sign wasn't there before (even though they were selling E10).