yipee!
Well, you know that we bought a Chevy Avalanche Flex Fuel last year, in a show of solidarity for alternate fuel.. except we couldn't actually FIND that fuel.  Well, today was the opening of the first FlexFuel station in Miami!!
This is a major cause of celebration, as South Florida isn't the most environmentally aware state.
Oh, and did you know that all vehilcles imported into Brazil have to run on Ethanol?  AND Porsche makes an Ethanol car but only for Brazil?
Anyhow, here's the article...

Ethanol debuts in South Florida

A U Gas station has made E85 fuel publicly available for the first time in South Florida.

BY MARTHA BRANNIGAN

mbrannigan@MiamiHerald.com

WALTER MICHOT/MIAMI HERALD STAFF

A new ethanol gas tanker supplies the U Gas station at 210 NW 79th Ave. The station is the first in South Florida to offer the fuel — a blend of ethanol and gasoline.

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South Florida just got a bit greener.

The U Gas station near the Mall of the Americas in Miami-Dade County plans to begin selling E85 fuel — an ethanol gasoline mixture — for flex-fuel vehicles today. That makes it the first service station in South Florida to offer E85 to the public.

''Ethanol is the future. It's renewable energy and it's the correct thing to do,'' said Willie Urbieta, whose family-owned company, Urbieta Oil, operates the U Gas at 210 NW 79 Ave.
E85 is a mixture of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline that can be used in cars and trucks specially designed to run on the renewable fuel. Though more widely available in the Midwest, which produces the corn it's typically made from in the United States, E85 is still relatively rare in Florida.

To promote the fuel, U Gas will be offering the E85 at a special price of 85 cents a gallon from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. today and Friday. E85 normally fetches about $2.55 a gallon.

The local debut of E85 fuel was highlighted during an E85 forum Wednesday at Florida International University, where a panel of experts stressed the need to embrace ethanol and other alternative fuels in the face of dwindling fossil-fuel supplies and geopolitical uncertainties.

General Motors, which helped organize the FIU event and has 14 vehicles among its 2007 lineup that can run on E85 fuel, is providing marketing help to U Gas and other service stations around the country to encourage the foray into E85.

GM is mailing cards to the owners of some 11,317 GM flex-fuel vehicles located in South Florida to let them know that U Gas now has the alternative fuel.

But the auto giant's key role has been to act as a matchmaker, bringing together parties that can help knit an infrastructure to distribute E85 fuel to retailers on a