The factory maintenance manual for my Jeep warns that alcohol containing fuel should not be used except in emergency.
Adding the 10% alcohol in gasoline reduces my Honda’s fuel mileage from 30 mpg to 24 mpg. No savings what so ever.
School of hard knocks.
Any vehicle of mine that sits a long time gets non-alcohol gas - yes it costs more.
Any seasonal machine (generator) is stored with no gas and the carburetor run dry. Drained gas is put in the everyday cars.
And it never was cleaner, as you have to burn more of it for the same energy.
I run my stuff dry as well or use fuel stabilizer. I only use non-ethanol gas in my chainsaw and it absolutely loves it.
Not sure if it’s a perfect solution, but I run high-octane (93) fuel in all of my small-engines, including my lawn tractor, snow blower, pressure washer, ATVs and UTV and I add Sea Foam with every fill-up. Although I hate the idea of ethanol for all the reasons described above, it seems to be working well.
What an ignorant fool. I can’t decide whether his ignorance about science, mechanics, or logic is the most appalling, but only a dumbass would write such drivel and actually put his name on it.
A clue for the clueless: small engines that are not properly maintained will degrade and fail, regardless of the fuel used in them, as they did in dad and grandpa’s era.
What drivel.
I had a new gas blower that lasted exactly two uses thanks to ethanol.
I now buy the premixed ethanol free fuel for $6 a quart at Home Depot because of course the insane asylum in Annapolis, MD has rendered it illegal for dealers to sell completely ethanol free fuel at the pump.
I always used ethanol free gas in my boats after I was ripped off about $1K from boat repair folks fixing everything instead of just replacing my fuel lines. Put non ethanol gas in your car and watch your mileage miraculously go up dramatically. But gotta keep the farmers happy and voting the Right way:-)
Having rebuilt three small engine carbs I no longer put any fuel containing gasahol in any small engine. I located a gas station that sells the ethanol free gas, use that, and get far better fuel consumption than before.
Buy this adder, run all the fuel out, etc.
No!
Ethanol is all about money. Ethanol Lobbyist are paying our elected official off, ignore the damage.
Ethanol is the worst con game I have ever seen.
Now let the corn stalk lickers argue me wrong.
We have plenty of petroleum. We need the corn for animal feed. Animal feed is more valuable than ethanol. Stop the subsidies and mandates now.
Yeah ethanol laced gas is crap, but not draining the fuel tank and running the snowblower dry at the end of the season will gum things up regardless if you used non ethanol gas. Ditto for your lawn mower. I did this with my snow blower and mower for years and removed the spark plug adding a shot of WD-40 for good measure. My snow blower and lawn mower always started. Sorry Charlie.
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The claim that Ethanol is clean is based on carbon dioxide emissions. So unless you believe in global warming...you are funding the global warming scam.
You do realize that these technological decisions are made by people with no technical ability who are paid off by vested interests.
He is totally correct re: FEDGOV and ethanol, but good luck with rolling the ethanol mandate back.
Archer Daniels Midland and the Corn Growers of America are in total control of that sector of the economy!
You can use your favorite search engine to locate one of the many alcohol-free gas stations in the country. Just do a search for “alcohol free gasoline”.
If you run the tank dry and do not store gas in the tank, there will be no problem’’
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