Ethanol free!

[R_David]

Moving to Florida from Massachusetts, and I discovered this at a gas station near my new job down there! Sweet!

[rockne10]

There is a Sheetz convenience store three miles from my house that has a single ethanol free pump, out of the sixteen pumps on their lot.
Next nearest is almost twenty miles.

[Bill Graepel]

Check this site: https://www.pure-gas.org/
Good information, been using it for years.
Bill Graepel

[IndStudenut]

Thanks Bill been trying to find out for a while were in my area I could get E0

[Guido]

Even Wal-Mart sells ethanol free in my area. On an even better note, I found diesel for $4.19 on Friday.

[Mike Van Veghten]

Really not a big deal !

Hell, races cars run on ethanol ! It's got oxygen in it. Guess what your engine NEEDS so it will run..."oxygen" !
I never figured out what all the concern is about. Just a little tuning alteration, simple.

Mike

[sweetolbob]

Really not a big deal !

Hell, races cars run on ethanol ! It's got oxygen in it. Guess what your engine NEEDS so it will run..."oxygen" !
I never figured out what all the concern is about. Just a little tuning alteration, simple.

Mike

Ethanol has a propensity to swell certain rubber compounds and draw water into the gasoline mix. Neither is a positive when it comes to better running engines of the type usually discussed on this forum.

ETOH makes a fine fuel for racing but the storage and usage conditions are markedly different than street use.

Bob

[Buzzard]

I am fortunate that my commercial fuel provider sells ethanol free PREMIUM fuel. It solves a ton of problems (percolation in chain saws in summer) and corrosion in older fuel systems, especially seeing as a lot of my equipment(vehicles) sit for many months at a time. If you have a choice I say go for the EF fuel.
Bill

[daytonadave]

Ethanol is the worst additive to our gasoline. Remember the old days?; fuel could set in a can or gas tank for years and still be good.
I live near a Lake and every Station has no-ethanol Premium. Some stations now sell no-ethanol regular fuel.
Ethanol was added to reduce pollution in older cars. Everyone is driving Catalytic converter vehicles. Now is the time to remove it so we can get better MPG.
E-85 is great for racing.
190 Proof Grain Alcohol is great for relaxing.

[64studeavanti]

FWIW, ethanol has higher knock rating, but lower energy/gal.

[E. Davis]

It is pretty hard to find something good to say about whiskey gas. If you do choose to use it don't let it sit in your tank for six months (like over winter) without an additive to retard its corrosive action and in some cases gather enough water to actually turn to a gel. It is nasty stuff and Inever use it any of my small engines or classic cars.

[Bud]

Ethanol belongs in a scotch bottle and not in my gas tank. Ethanol sucks up moisture like a sponge and can cause serious damage to the fuel systems of older cars. Ethanol laden gasoline may have a higher octane number but it does not produce the heat in BTU's that non ethanol gas does. Plus the fuel mixture has to be richened to get the engine to run properly raising fuel consumption. I think venues like NASCAR went to ethanol gas because they are bowing to political pressure. Bud

[Mike Van Veghten]

Ethanol has a propensity to swell certain rubber compounds and draw water into the gasoline mix. Neither is a positive when it comes to better running engines of the type usually discussed on this forum.

ETOH makes a fine fuel for racing but the storage and usage conditions are markedly different than street use.

Bob

Sorta correct, depends on the percentage.
Us in CA, have been using it for YEARS...with no ill effects, at least in my Studebakers, nore in anyone else's old cars that I've heard of !

Mike

[Hawklover]

Sorta correct, depends on the percentage.
Us in CA, have been using it for YEARS...with no ill effects, at least in my Studebakers, nore in anyone else's old cars that I've heard of !

Mike

Operative statement."At least in my Studebakers" Due to you messaging your cars.:-)

[Hawklover]

Moving to Florida from Massachusetts, and I discovered this at a gas station near my new job down there! Sweet!

Mr. David,
You are experiencing one of the myriad benefits of being domiciled in a "free" state.

[Hallabutt]

Personally I hate the stuff, but like most of us I use it regularly in my more modern (that's a laugh my newest car is a 1996). I use mostly NE in my older collector cars for all of the above reasons. One cold day in early January I wished that I had EF in the tank of my 1960 V8 wagon. The car had been in an unheated garage since Oct. The garage, really a finished poll building, is dry and seldom gets below 45 degrees. Some of us were going to meet at the AAA burger restaurant, which is about 12 miles from home. The weather was chilly, low 30's, overcast and dry. The tank was about half full of NE. The car is a great tour car but after a rebuild of the engine and a recore of the radiator, it's been reluctant to run at much more then about 160 degrees. I usually use a piece of cardboard in front of the rad.-two pieces really one for cold weather and another for temps in the 50 degree range. For some reason I didn't used either on that day. The car started fine and ran great until I got about a mile and a half form the restaurant. Then at a stop light it just died and refused to restart. No fuel was getting into the carb. I walked about a mile to a parts store and got a can of starting fluid. All to no avail so I called for a tow truck. We got the car back into the shop where the temp was in the 40's. The next day the car started right up and ran fine. My diagnosis was carburetor ice. The one time I can point to and say I wish that I had used EF.