Clear Gas is just the latest E-0 initiative to be announced (out of Merced, CA if memory serves). There are others. But Ron's point is worth considering:
"The real question is whether many airports have the infrastructure to have both 100LL (which by the way will be here a long time), and 91 octane auto gas."
Many smaller airports in my part of the country have dug around and found the funding to install self-service 100LL systems for their ramps because it's a win-win: increased fuel sales (24/7) without increased labor costs, and somewhat lower fuel prices (which in turn may attract even more fuel sales for those ramps). So now there's the 100LL tank in the fuel farm, the fuel truck itself, and the 100LL self-service tank + system - plus of course the JetA supply system. That's already a lot of fueling infrastructure for a smaller airport.
Seems to me it's a hard sale, for airports set up like this, to fund yet another fuel + fueling system, no matter how much many of us would like to see it. Fuel sales would shift (from 100LL to E-0) more so than increase, so how is the cost of the new fueling system to be covered? So far, I haven't seen Clear Gas address this in their promotional efforts.
Jack
