Posted on 12/04/2015 5:03:28 AM PST by thackney
Not available in the Houston area.
We are required to Reformulated gasoline by the EPA.
You can buy barrels of racing fuel, or lawnmower fuel by the pint at greatly higher prices, but not ethanol free gasoline at a pump.
I have a 99 toyota and it runs better on straight gas. I am glad they got rid of MTBE. It made my car stall out.
More corn for food.
Big agriculture hardest hit!
You have to, if you want your small engines to last. Do you know that a lot of them will void your warranty if the ethanol content goes up to 15%?
HOWEVER, if car manufacturers would boost compression, and use something that the ethanol would not attack in seals and hoses and such, ethanol might be good for us.
I was recently driving through south central Alabama and found plenty of stations with mid-grade, ethanol free gas.
It was a first for me.
Love it! LOL!
I can’t believe it—Obama actually did something I agree with!
I think he and I had had 100% opposing positions through almost 7 years, up to this point.
The industry really had no way to meet the 2007 law without exceeding the 10% mix.
Not enough people are willing to buy E85 as they originally thought.
Ethanol-blends deteriorate almost the moment they are pumped, and can break down in the fuel tank causing:
Rust
Corrosion
Gum/Varnish Build-up
And the longer these blended fuels sit in the fuel tank, the more damage they can do, resulting in:
Starting issues
Rough running
Severe engine damage
https://www.briggsandstratton.com/us/en/shop/why-genuine-parts/fuel-treatment
I use their additive in the gaslonine I store.
“I go out of my way to buy ethanol-free gas to use in my small engines.”........
You are not alone.
E85 is more expesive at the stations near me than regular right now. I’ve tried E85 and my MPG went down +10%. It’s not a good product.
The fact that E85 would destroy most car engines that are more than a couple of years old probably helped make “Not enough people are willing to buy E85 as they originally thought.”
Agree
No reason I would try E85 unless it was more than 10% cheaper.
That's a shame about Houston. The pre-mixed gas in a can sells around here for about $7.50 a quart. That's $30 per gallon. That's almost 14 times the cost of gas at the pump (in our area in NC). I wish the government would get the h*ll out of our lives.
If ethanol as a fuel were "good" for us, it would not require any subsidies or mandates.
As it is, it reduces mileage, raises costs and does not improve air quality (which was the original rationale for its use). Nor is there any shortage of gasoline that justifies using ethanol as an "extender".
Ergo, there is no legitimate free market rationale for maintaining ethanol as a fuel.
An absolute boondoggle for the corn growers.
Pray America wakes
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