Well......lol...I can't argue with that. On average I buy one new imported gas powered device every year because the old (still new) one has crapped out due to fuel system damage caused entirely by..............wait for it............ethanol!
I also, on average, replace one imported fuel pump on one or more of my vehicles every three years because of.........yes you guessed it.....Ethanol.
So I am doing best to add dollars to our imports, thus contributing along with many others to the very same trade deficit at least enough to compensate any fuel savings.
Fuel ethanol production subsidizes pork and chicken production, which are big export items. For every pound of ethanol produced, there is about a pound of high-protein animal feed. There’s also about a pound of CO2. Ethanol is more embedded in ag and the larger economy than most understand. That’s partly why it is such an intractable problem.
I have an eleven year old Nissan PU and I've never had to buy a fuel pump.
My lawnmower(5 years old) is ok with up to E10 and E10 actually works better than straight gasoline because the E10 is fresher fuel. If you have old fuel it does not make any difference which fuel you are using, you will have problems.
I have also found that if you run all the fuel out of the tank and carb, and put fresh fuel in everytime you use it, you have fewer problems. I never buy more than 2 month supply of gas for the mower.