Max123
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I typed multiple versions of the following inquiry into ChatGPT and Google's Claude: "Is there any ethanol free gas available in BC"
All said the same thing - basically no, with minor caveats already noted above (low volume exemption). Below is the relevant section out of the regulation that establishes the target. A bunch of times the AI directs toward pure-gas.org which lists about 10 coop stations as having ethanol free, however as noted before, coop already addressed this in a press release stating pretty definitively that all of their stations meet the 5% minimum.
Also, Chevron used to have ethanol free 94, however this was phased out. My understanding is that they were allowed to have ethanol free because they met the 5% requirement averaged across their entire inventory (eg, higher ethanol in lower octane rating). Its unclear why they phased this out - I don't see that averaging is specifically prohibited in the regulation - and they may have done this for simplicity rather than legal reasons. Maybe some stations still use this strategy - I can't say definitively - but if you are testing the gas and it comes out at 0% - I'll take that as evidence that its still out there somehow (legally or otherwise).
All said the same thing - basically no, with minor caveats already noted above (low volume exemption). Below is the relevant section out of the regulation that establishes the target. A bunch of times the AI directs toward pure-gas.org which lists about 10 coop stations as having ethanol free, however as noted before, coop already addressed this in a press release stating pretty definitively that all of their stations meet the 5% minimum.
Also, Chevron used to have ethanol free 94, however this was phased out. My understanding is that they were allowed to have ethanol free because they met the 5% requirement averaged across their entire inventory (eg, higher ethanol in lower octane rating). Its unclear why they phased this out - I don't see that averaging is specifically prohibited in the regulation - and they may have done this for simplicity rather than legal reasons. Maybe some stations still use this strategy - I can't say definitively - but if you are testing the gas and it comes out at 0% - I'll take that as evidence that its still out there somehow (legally or otherwise).
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