Roadrunner market on the corner of Highway 11-E and Boone Street in Jonesborough, Tenn. introduced E-85 flex fuel Tuesday.
Click here to hear a statement from Ryan Broyles, President of Mountain Empire Oil Company.
The fuel, a corn-based petroleum, is 85-percent ethanol and 15-percent gasoline. Roadrunner is the first location in Washington County to offer the mixture.
Click here for a look at Tuesday's ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Food experts are concerned the oil alternative is fueling high food prices. Review this article posted yesterday by the Associated Press:
With food costs rising, ethanol benefits now questioned
CAPITOL HILL (AP) - With the uproar over ethanol gaining
momentum, some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are wondering if they made
a mistake.
Just months ago, ethanol made from corn was seen as the Holy
Grail to energy independence and a "green fuel" that would help
nudge the country away from climate changing fossil energy.
Democrats and Republicans cheered its benefits as Congress
directed a fivefold increase in ethanol use as a motor fuel.
President Bush called it key to his strategy to cut gasoline use by
20 percent by 2010.
But now with skyrocketing food costs and hunger spreading across
the globe, there are second thoughts.
There's talk of asking the government to cut this year's mandate
for 9 billion gallons of corn ethanol in a bid to ease food costs.
The dramatic reversal has stunned ethanol producers and its
supporters in Washington as they have seen their product shift from
being an object of praise to one of derision.
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