Move could yield “favorable business outcomes” as well as cut down on lead emissions.
Move could yield “favorable business outcomes” as well as cut down on lead emissions.
“In order for the addition of mogas [unleaded fuel] sales at HIO [Hillsboro Airport] to be a modestly positive business proposition, a ‘new vendor’ would have to achieve mogas sales levels approaching 15 percent of all piston-engine fuel sales,” the study concluded. “If an existing [fuel retailer] were to add mogas sales in addition to ongoing 100LL sales, an ‘increment’ of new total fuel sales between 5 percent and 10 percent would be required to make the undertaking profitable.”
The study cautioned that mogas is still a “niche” fuel but identified “at least three wholesale distributors located proximal to HIO.”
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