It ruins my small engines.
The ethanol mandate is textbook Fascism.
Yep. It dissolved the fuel lines in my weed trimmer, rendering it unrepairable.
That was all the evidence I needed. And, no, Stabil don't prevent this.
There's a few stations near by that have dedicated pumps for ethanol-free gas. It's about $.50 more per gallon but that's all I'll use in my small engines.
This. Lost a chainsaw and the motor on my DR high wheel trimmer before I wised up and ran nothing but ethanol-free premium in all of my small engines. Current DR starts on the first pull, chainsaws on the second or third. Also fill up the Yukon with non-ethanol premium every 5th or 6th tankful. What a difference. That big 6.0 liter engine just purrs.