General Motors Wants to Fill Up Your FlexFuel Tank California
General Motors is looking to get American drivers talking again about its FlexFuel range of vehicles and the potential of E85 ethanol. Now the company is ready to put its money where your gas tank is.
While Los Angeles has some of the highest fuel costs in the country, on February 26th, from noon to 2:00 p.m., the Conserv Fuel station at 11699 San Vicente Blvd. in Brentwood will be offering the ethanol gasoline mixture for a scant 85 cents per gallon. Better yet, GM is planning to pick up the tab.
GM believes that biofuels show some of the greatest promise when it comes to reducing the use of petroleum-based products. So the company is sponsoring the E85 promotion, as a means to raise awareness of the fuel, as well as getting in a decent plug for there own range of eco-happy cars and trucks.
The moral of the story is, if you’re one of the 46,000 FlexFuel empowered vehicle drivers in the L.A. area next Tuesday, get down to Brentwood and have a tank on The General.
GM Offers LA Drivers E85 Ethanol for 85 Cents a Gallon
FlexFuel Vehicle Promotion Targets Ethanol Infrastructure GrowthBRENTWOOD, Calif. – The rising price of gasoline is hard to avoid in Los Angeles, but owners of the more than 46,000 FlexFuel vehicles capable of running on E85 ethanol are about to get a break this Tuesday – paying only 85.9 cents a gallon for the cleaner, alternative fuel.On February 26th from noon to 2:00 p.m., Conserv Fuel at 11699 San Vicente Blvd. in Brentwood will offer E85 ethanol for 85 cents a gallon.
And General Motors is paying the bill.
GM is sponsoring the promotion to help raise awareness about the first station in Los Angeles to offer E85 ethanol, and to encourage drivers of FlexFuel vehicles to use this cleaner, renewable fuel instead of gasoline.
“At GM, we believe the biofuel with the greatest potential to displace petroleum-based fuels and help reduce tailpipe carbon gas emissions in the United States is ethanol, and so we have made a major commitment to vehicles that can run on E85 ethanol,
Comments
CARSON44
Sounds like the recipe for a traffic jam.
Russ Bellinis
Obviously, Seyth hasn't a clue about the size of Loa Angeles or the Los Angeles metropolitan area. I would need to fill my car to make the trip to Brentwood where I could fill my car with E-85, then drive back home and refill the tank again, to say nothing of the hours spent in a traffic jam to and from the gas station! I'm sorry folks, but even if we get a second gas station somewhere in Cali that sells E85, it isn't the answer to any question. This whole thing about E85 in Cali is a total joke until the oil companies get serious enough about it to make the fuel available throughout the state. Right now it looks like a big publicity stunt with as much real value as any other publicity stunt-ie "0".
06YellowGT
Sure it's a big publicity stunt, but as long as it gets E-85 mentioned in the news, and even if it's because of the traffic jam that it caused, then the mission was successful, and E-85 is back in the minds of consumers again. (Dont get me wrong, i'm not a fan of E-85 for many reasons)
On another topic: you mention the hours of time spent in traffic jams to get to and from Brentwood..... What does anyone think about the state of California being partially responsible for vehicle emissions and wasted fuel for not providing an infastructure that encourages fuel efficiency? A vehicle traveling at 0 miles per hour is getting 0 miles per gallon!
Oollyoumn
1986 a San Antonio,TX gas station gave away real gas for 2 hours with no sponsor. There were lines from what I saw in the news coverage.
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