Meeting this standard allows gasoline marketers to differentiate themselves from their competition.
The subsidy provided gasoline marketers with a tax credit for the ethanol they used in gasohol.
Two gasoline marketers are ending long agency relationships.
Some gasoline marketers said that lower retail prices would not result from yesterday's 16.3 percent drop in spot prices.
Gasoline consumers also could be paying higher prices in a few years if many independent gasoline marketers are driven from the business.
The oil industry is far from monolithic, as the plight of the independent gasoline marketers suggests.
That would be the first time a primary gasoline marketer has moved to test public demand for the cleaner-burning fuel in the United States.
In these investigations, Bedell quickly gained the support of small gasoline marketers and Senator Bill Nelson.
Also, the Getty Petroleum Company, an independent gasoline marketer, has asked permission.
According to the Lundberg survey, Shell was the No. 2 gasoline marketer in the state in 1987, with a 12.5 percent share.