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‘As far as I can tell, we’re the first ones with concession karts that run on E85.’ —John Sperry, co-owner of Thunder Road Family Park
could run on E85. After successfully converting one, he switched over all 26 of the 6.5 horsepower Honda engines and seven double carts with 9 horsepower engines. “As far as I can tell, we’re the first ones with concession karts that run on E85,” he says. The town’s other big promoter of E85 has a long history with ethanol. “Sioux Valley [Co-op] was the first [gas station] in South Dakota to offer E10 back in the early ’70s,” says Manager Gary French. The cooperative installed a blender pump three years ago at its station on the east side of Watertown. “It wasn’t six months after that and people were asking, ‘When are you getting them over at our other locations?’” French says. There’s been a steady increase in the gallons of ethanol sold by the cooperative, which receives its ethanol directly from Glacial Lakes Energy. French says that the sale of unleaded gasoline without ethanol has dropped while E30 sales have increased each month. E10 sales are holding steady and E85 has increased some. The ethanol plant is accepted in the community, he adds. “A lot of times when something like this comes to town you have people badmouthing it,” he says. “That’s pretty much nonexistent.”
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