FAIRFIELD — An alternative fuels organization hopes a new fuel delivery system will be the wave of the future.

Unity Biofuels is working on bringing self-blending ethanol/gas pumps into Iowa and will introduce two of the new pumps next month in Henry County — at Olds and Mount Pleasant.

“Basically what we are doing with the blended pumps is we are putting in 98 percent ethanol, then a tank of straight 87 octane (gasoline),” said Unity Biofuels Manager Jason Egli.

Unity Biofuels Board member Tom Fullenkamp said the nice thing about these pumps is that the ethanol is blended with the gasoline right inside the pump itself, saving the consumer the blending fee, which will lower the prices of the ethanol fuels — anything from E20 and higher.

Egli said they will offer four different blends of the ethanol gasoline: E10, E20, E30 and E85. The number is the percentage of ethanol in the blend.

Right now because of the Clean Air Act, regular cars can only use the E10.

However, flex fuel vehicles can use any of the ethanol blends.

“This will mainly be for people with flex fuel vehicles, but is could be for regular cars very soon. We hope this also helps promote the sales of more flex fuel vehicles, too,” Egli said.

He said since the gas companies will not be pre-blending fuel for these pumps, Unity Biofuels will be getting the blenders credit, which will actually go back to the consumers and lower the prices on the E20 and higher blends.

“We are going to use that credit and give it back to the consumer so they get a lower price at the pumps,” Egli said.

But soon, regular cars may be able to use the E30 gasoline blend. He said the University of Minnesota did a study of the different ethanol blends and found that regular cars are able to withstand up to E30 without any harm to the environment or to the vehicle itself.

Egli said the idea for the project started last spring and they actually started construction the last week of June.

“We are hoping to have the first pump in operation by next Wednesday,” Egli said.

However the grand opening will be from 12-5 p.m. Sept. 5 in Olds just off Highway 218.

They group has not yet set a date for the operation of the blending pump in Mount Pleasant.