[Fot] Ethanol in TX gasoline.

[John Herrera]

I spent Tuesday afternnon hanging about in my old friend's hangar. He was finishing an annual on a Piper Colt that has the Autogas STC. He needed gasoline to test the engine so he went to the nearby Sheetz and bought a can of 87 octane rating and a can of 91.
 
Neither pump was labeled as containing ethanol.
 
The STC allows the use of autogas only if it contains NO alcohol, so he tested the gas for alcohol content using a test kit. The kit came from Sporty's or Aircraft Spruce or equivalent. 
 
The 87 contained 8% and the 91 contained 5% alcohol.
 
So I think this means that one can't always go by the labeling on the pump.
 
John H.



In Texas, soon as one get out of the metropolitan areas of Ft. Worth and Dallas, say 15 miles south of Fort Worth to Motor Sports Ranch, there is NO Ethanol in any of the pump gas.  I know this because while doing HPDE's in my M3 I looked for Shell 93 Oct. I noticed that the required  "May contain up to 10%  Ethanol"  sticker required by law to be on every pump containing Ethanol was absent along with any vapor recovery technology. The station owner confirmed...  No Ethanol
 
Bill Collins
'64 MK1 Spit racer
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