[Taxman]

My monthly fueling costs have gone from about $125 in my 2012 ECO MT to $45 with my 2017 Volt. Of that $45, $20 is provided by the Colorado School of Mines in the form of free four hour charging at work each day.

Yesterday I noticed the City of DeWitt's one public level 2 charger was wrapped in yellow police tape. Don't know what's up with that, it was working fine a year ago. If I had managed to get a dealer to sell me a new 2016 SparkEV I'd be sorely missing that charger right now, the plan was to have the city I work in pay for 60% of my winter EV fuel costs. In bad weather I probably couldn't even make the 72 mile round trip without charging at both ends of the commute.

(today I completed seven days of my commute on one tank of gas, the first time I'd ever done that many days without a 20 gallon Mercedes fuel tank)

 

[Taxman]

At a nearby Speedway station, E10 87 octane is $2.86, E85 is $1.86, and E10 93 octane is $3.46.

It would be nice to have flex fuel capability, then I'd buy 30mpg E85 over 40mpg E10 at these prices.

With less price differential on the E85, I'd still like to be able to throw in 3 gallons of E85 for an octane boost and fill it up with regular, instead of paying substantially more to fill it up with premium.