Tennessee travel centers offering more ethanol

Monday, March 8, 2010

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Pilot Travel Centers have added three more locations where Ethanol 85 can be purchased.

They are Strawberry Plains Pike and Crossville locations in East Tennessee and in Dickson, Tenn., along Interstate 40 west of Nashville.

Earlier locations were in Knoxville at Northshore Drive at Pellissippi Parkway, and Walker Springs Road. They offered the fuel beginning in 2007.

E85 contains 85 percent ethanol, or ethyl alcohol, which helps reduce air pollution, is biodegradable and does not pollute groundwater. It is for FlexFuel vehicles.

Pilot, based in Knoxville, bills itself as the largest operator of travel centers in the country with more than 300 locations in 40 states.