Posted by Jon Hagen on October 10, 2013 at 19:02:40 from (69.26.17.61):
In Reply to: Re: New Gasoline posted by gbs on October 10, 2013 at 18:06:18:
GBS, thats my pet peeve too. 10% Ethanol blend gas has been around since the 70's. The car co's licked the ethanol compatibility problens in 2 years, while 40 years later, the small engine builders are still whining instead of fixing the problems considering that atleast E10 is pretty much everywhere, if an engine does not say it will take atleast 10%E, I leave it in the store.
In my state(North Dakota) we are in that band of north to south states (ND to Texas) where Ethanol is not mandated, we have always had 87 octane E0, 90 octane E10 avalible, now also with E15,E30,E85.
The government has pushed the oil co's to sell more Ethanol to meet the RFS (renuable Fuel Standard)mandate, so we have or will soon have Ethanol in all gasoline. The pipelines that supply our area will no longer ship(since the 14th of last month they say) Ethanol free(E0), they will ship crappy 84 octane gas to be blended with enough Ethanol to meet the minimum 87 octane standard. A few places have the new 84 octane gas(labled as 87 octane with 10% E), some stations still have the old E0 87 octane gas in their tanks, but that cant last muck longer. Have not used much of the 84 octane blended with E to make 87 octane yet, so I cant comment about performance or economy with it. I have always had good performance and economy with the 90 octane E10, so I hope the 87 octane E10 is not much or any worse.
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