Florida fuel testing procedures called into question

摘要

Majors who have tested the ethanol fuel sold by some of the independent companies in Florida say that samples they took show that the fuel does not comply with some state specifications. In particular, they cite a regulation that governs vapor-to-liquid ratios, known as the TV/L spec. Majors say they cannot consistently comply with that spec if they use their current gasoline formula for ethanol blending -and they say they doubt that independent refiners and marketers can do any better.