Published on Friday, October 17, 2008
By Daily Breeze Staff Writer
Ethanol fueling stations are nowhere near as prevalent in California as they are in the Midwest, where the main ethanol feedstock - corn - grows in abundance and demand for the fuel source is high.
Several hundred ethanol stations dot the Minnesota landscape. In California, there are five.
That number, though, is growing.
Ethanol wholesaler Pearson Fuels, with headquarters in San Diego, is assisting in the construction of eight ethanol stations in California, including: Perris, Beaumont, Carlsbad, Concord, Hayward, San Jose, Carmichael and Sacramento.
"We want them spread out," said Mike Lewis, a principal in Pearson Fuels.
Perris and Beaumont have another thing going for them: They're located in well-traveled areas, said JoAnn Armenta, a regional coordinator for Clean Cities, an arm of the U.S. Department of Energy that provided funding for the stations.
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