If grocery stores were to sell biofuel made out of their own corn how would that effect gas stations?

Question

If grocery stores were to sell biofuel made out of their own corn how would that effect gas stations?

Answer 1

I don't think it would make any difference. It takes a lot of corn to produce to produce what they need and they don't really have enough of the waste products to produce other biofuels.

Answer 2

Seeing as most cars (in the U.S.) can't use biofuels (ethanol or diesel) and that the biofuel would likely be as or more expensive than good old dino fuel, I would say not much.

Answer 3

grocery stores dont have their own corn...you mean the cans of corn  or corn on the cob...lol

Answer 4

The only ethanol filling stations that I know of in my town of Austin, Texas ARE at grocery stores. The supermarket chain HEB in Austin has a number of stores with gas stations and 6 of them sell E-85. Of course the E-85 is just a commodity bought from suppliers and not made at the store. Just like everything else at HEB, except maybe for some bread and cake baked in the store bakery.

Answer 5

http://www.grocerystores.ca

http://www.gasstations.ca

Answer 6

If corn fuel is cheaper and more available than petroleum, then it could make a difference. But thats hardly the case.

Answer 7

Grocery stores are selling off thier biomass to pig farmers, for feed. If the pig farmer was to trap all of the resulting methane gas and convert it to electricity- this method of energy btu production would be 10 times more efficient  than creating distilled grain alcohol. The effects are mixed, under this scenario-natural habitat may be abused to the point of toxic wasteland. Burning methane produces co/2. The upside is that doing so is far less dangerious to communities who have limited fresh/potable water resources.

Answer 8

Not hardly at all.

A quick web search revealed that it takes about 1/3 of a bushel of corn (or roughly 15 to 20 lbs of corn) to make a gallon of biofuel.

So to fill up one car with 15 gallons would take 300 lbs of corn.  

A grocery store would need to a) buy thousands and thousands of lbs of corn, and b) build (and permit) a biofuel production facility to affect a gas station.

If biofuels affect gas stations, it won't be because grocery stores are competing with them.