(quoted from post at 18:27:41 07/24/20) Because the information at pure-gas.org is crowdsourced, it tends to be unreliable. Anybody can add a station and anybody can remove a station. But I don't know of a better source.
(quoted from post at 15:49:14 07/24/20) This thread made my day.
I've used E10 for 40 years, or ever since it came out, in everything from farm tractors to chain saws, weedeaters, etc. and I can honestly say I've never had a problem I could blame on the ethanol.
I inadvertently let a wheeled string trimmer sit outside all last winter with ethanol in the tank. It started on the second pull this spring and ran perfectly with what was in the tank.
I think a lot of problems are blamed onto ethanol when they're actually caused by something else. Plus there's an endless amount of barroom and coffee shop disinformation going around about ethanol. Someone says E10 will damage two stroke engines because it burns hotter than pure gasoline, another study says ethanol burns cooler. I prefer to believe a credible study.
The owner's manuals for both of my Stihl chain saws simply advise against using gasoline with more then 10% ethanol. So that's what I use in them. They both sat for close to two years while I had back surgery and followup problems. They both started right up this spring on what was in the tank.
And so it goes.
ny chance it was called Klotz Nitro?(quoted from post at 12:32:14 07/25/20) When I moved from late model stock cars to outlaw sprint cars, I found we had fewer problems with engines overheating, largely because we ran straight methanol in the sprints where rules for the stocks required pump gasoline and methanol burns cooler than gasoline.
(Not that we actually ran straight pump gasoline in the stocks. We always added an octane booster to our fuel in the stocks. Can't recall the name of it, but we added a quart to ten gallons of gasoline. I don't know if it actually improved performance, but it gave the exhaust a distinctive aroma.)
itropropane. BIG difference.(quoted from post at 13:54:33 07/25/20) Klotz Nitro is 50% [b:272816a6f7]nitromethane [/b:272816a6f7]and 50% Koolinal [whatever that is]
thanol is used because mtbe is bad for the environment. And the amount of ethanol is regulated based on how dirty the air is in a particular geographic area. Large metropolitan areas are required to use more ethanol than rural areas.(quoted from post at 13:06:15 07/25/20) If everyone hates ethanol gas so much, why not just drop the federal ethanol requirement? The fuel shortages are over for the foreseeable future, and modern vehicles have the technology to burn straight gasoline just as cleanly or even cleaner than ethanol fuels. The only real reason for continuing the federal ethanol mandate is that corn growers don't want to cutback their production. Cornbelt states and any other states can still mandate the local use of ethanol gas and soy-diesel fuels if they choose, and the rest of us will get by just fine without it.
(quoted from post at 09:38:20 07/27/20) A quick Google search shows that the "Experts" think as much as 3% of gasoline sold as motor fuel is E-0, non-lethal containing gasoline. BUT, gasoline retailers in Iowa claim that E-0 is 14% of the gallons they sell. North Carolina seems to be the largest user of E-0, but WISCONSIN has the highest number of retail E-0 outlets. They really can't pin down an exact number of gallons of E-0 gas that's sold because typically the ethanol is added to the gas as the tank trucks going to the stations are loaded, but they hint that something more than 5% is the actual number.
I got in a really heated argument on a forum years ago when somebody said only 5% of the nation's corn crop was used to make ethanol to add to gasoline. My research showed in was between 35 and 40%. Using corn to make ethanol to stretch our motor fuel supply seems silly, that only raises the cost to feed livestock, which increases meat prices. Articles I've read say a plant called "Sawgrass", typically found in the Florida Everglades has absolutely NO other use, and could be processed to make a higher amount of ethanol per ton of plant matter processed. But we use corn because farmers grow too much of it.
International Harvester tested running DT-466 engines on 100% ethanol back in the late 1970's. The idea was that farmers would grow corn and distill it on their farm to power their equipment. Ethanol is a great motor fuel, makes crazy horsepower, need to change oil more frequently. Drag racers and sprint car racers have been using it for 60-70 years.
(quoted from post at 20:00:15 08/19/20)
Somebody here tried to tell me that premium fuel contained ethanol .
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