Detroit’s neighborhood gas stations to be fuel-alternative pioneers

General Motors Corp.’s drive to put ethanol-based fuel in the tanks of
more U.S. cars and trucks may transform Detroit’s neighborhood gas
stations and its drivers into pioneers in the use of the gasoline
alternative.

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General Motors Corp.’s drive to put ethanol-based fuel in the tanks of more U.S. cars and trucks may transform Detroit’s neighborhood gas stations and its drivers into pioneers in the use of the gasoline alternative.

GM Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner says he’ll join employees next month in using fuel that is 85 percent ethanol when the company begins requiring hundreds of its Detroit-area executives with ethanol-compatible company cars to fill up at new public pumps.

Wayne County, which surrounds Detroit, is trying to attract an ethanol refinery.

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