Posted by Paul in MN on January 11, 2009 at 17:45:28 from (71.210.131.11):
In Reply to: Storage of bulk fuel? posted by Clarkbug on January 11, 2009 at 11:54:55:
Just a suggestion. Pay the road tax (included in the delivery price) and then use it in your pickup or older vehicles as well as the tractors. By paying the road tax, you can legally use it for any purpose you want. I do know that the gas in our 275 gal above ground tank does degrade in quality within 6 months. But if you are using your purchased amount in that time, you should have no problem. I do sense a greater deterioration of gasoline with ethanol in it, as the ethanol draws water vapor from the air on humid days, and in the daily heat/cool cycling. This gas/ethanol/water mix does not fire as readily for starting, but will burn if the engine starts. We have had bulk gas delivered here for more than 25 years, and the only storage problems have been since the ethanol mandate. Occasionally we can get our fuel delivery to be straight gasoline with no ethanol if we pay a higher price and the delivery guy has enough other customers demanding straight gas that he can make a load.
Because of storage problems with some degradation of gas, I will no longer use our bulk tank gas in chainsaws, weed whippers, lawn mowers/lawn tractors, snowmobiles. I am just plain tired of taking carbs apart to clean the bad stinky, sticky gas "shellac" out of the carbs, and finding the tell-tale green sediment that is caused by the brass parts being eaten by the organic acid created by the ethanol/water. The green is the copper being leached out of the brass. I have found some needle valves half eaten through by the acid, and brass carb floats deeply etched by the acid. A gas station about 5 miles from us has the premium/non-ethanol gas available, and that is what I use for the small engines with virtually no problems in the carbs.
I am not happy with the quality of most of our gas or diesel fuel now mandated.
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