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To: HamiltonJay

Ethanol does not stablize gas, it destablizes it and creates wax deposits while releasing water to attack aluminum parts.

It’s hell on small engines. I use non ethanol gas in all my small engine equipment.


34 posted on 10/09/2017 5:37:30 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel

Sorry but it does indeed stabilize gas. Yes it is hell on the rubber and small parts, especially on 2 strokes, but it does indeed stablize gasoline. It has been used as such since the 1920s.

It was replaced by that lead based chemical later and basically helped poison the entire planet by releasing insane amounts of lead into the environment. When it was made illegal they returned to using ethanol as a stabilizing agent just like they had done prior to using the lead compounds.

Blaming the EPA for ethanol is just showing ignorance. MTBE was an evironmentla disaster created by the EPA mandating additives, but ethanol in gasoline predates the EPA and spinning it as such is just woefully ignorant.


39 posted on 10/09/2017 7:43:28 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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