[6pack] Ethanol gasoline blends,stabilizer

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Interesting....  Look at the Wikipedia page for E85 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E85

It says , in part: "Although proponents of E85 claim significant environmental benefits, research is showing that the growing and harvesting of corn in the US for use in E85 fuel is most likely damaging the environment and contributing to global warming."     Outrageous!

I think the tree-huggers are gonna kill us!!!

Dave

---- Bob <rpeglow at optonline.net> wrote: 
> Can the ethanol blends be "fixed" to last longer in storage containers with
> fuel stabilizer?
> Regards,
> Bob
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Lang" <lang at isis.mit.edu>
> To: "Shawn J. Loseke" <sloseke at holly.colostate.edu>
> Cc: "6pack" <6pack at autox.team.net>; "Craig" <wensley_Tr at comcast.net>
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 9:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [6pack] Ethanol gasoline blends
> 
> 
> > On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Shawn J. Loseke wrote:
> >
> > > The ethanol blends do 'go bad' much quicker than older fuels without it.
> So
> > > storage can be a problem. All of our fuel in Northern Colorado is 10%
> ethanol
> > > year round. Your car should run fine on it. However, if you begin having
> vapor
> > > lock problems, you can thank that 10% blend.
> >
> > Just as a random data point... the local small engine repair place has
> > lots to say about the 10% ethanol fuel. But hte takehome for me was that
> > they pretty much say _throw out_ fuel that is older than a month because
> > "it'll be bad".
> >
> > They don't go on to say exactly _how_ to accomplish this, but they get a
> > LOT of work fixing fuel system problems on small engines because of the
> > reformulated fuel.
> >
> > So, instead of having a 5 gallon container of fuel for the various engines
> > I use to maintain my "estate", I'm buying a gallon at a time and sharing.
> > This sucks for 2 strokes, but I'm down to replacing fuel filters every 10
> > hours instead of every hour or so with the chainsaw. Plus I keep about 10
> > spare fuel filters in the garage, "just in case".
> >
> > regards,
> > rml
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