The American Lung Association is joining hands with a Sioux Falls gas station this Thursday to promote clean air, a lowered risk of lung disease and cheaper more sustainable mostly non-fossil biofuels. E85 is a gasoline alternative consisting of up to 85 percent ethanol and just 15 percent gasoline.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The American Lung Association is joining hands with a Sioux Falls gas station this Thursday to promote clean air, a lowered risk of lung disease and cheaper more sustainable mostly non-fossil biofuels. E85 is a gasoline alternative consisting of up to 85 percent ethanol and just 15 percent gasoline. E85 can be used interchangeably with gasoline in "flex- fuel" vehicles. Today, more than 6 million E85-capable flex-fuel vehicles are already on U.S. roadways.
August 16, three days from today, a Holiday Stationstore at 5000 North Cliff Avenue in Sioux Falls will celebrate becoming South Dakota's first Holiday station to offer "E85" by reducing the price of the fuel to $1.85 per gallon from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m. To sweeten the deal, the station is also offering free root beer floats during the three-hour promotion. The promotion is sponsored by Holiday, General Motors Corporation, the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition and the American Lung Association of South Dakota.
The expanded availability of cleaner-burning E85 in Sioux Falls is hailed by the American Lung Association of South Dakota that support efforts to break away from fossil-based fuels that contribute to air pollution. To see if your vehicle is flex-fuel, see the American Lung Association website at http://www.CleanAirChoice.org.
"Flex-fuel vehicle owners using E85 instead of gasoline can reduce ozone- causing pollution by 20 percent and greenhouse gas emissions by up to 30 percent," said Linda Redder, communications manager for the American Lung Association of South Dakota. "Sioux Falls was one of the first cities to embrace this cleaner-burning alternative to gasoline, and South Dakotans have been working toward cleaner fuels and energy independence for decades."
According to Redder, the Holiday Stationstore at 5000 N. Cliff Avenue is the first Holiday station outside of Minnesota to offer E85. "The growth of E85 stations nationwide has been remarkable over past couple years," she
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noted. "Today there are more than 1,250 E85 stations in the United States, and the majority are in the upper Midwest."
