I buy the $5.45/gallon non ethanol for my small engines.
Where do you find that?
“I buy the $5.45/gallon non ethanol for my small engines.”
What are you talking about
That’s what I do, too. We have a “Maverick” station in Coeur d’Alene that sells it from the blue-handled pump. They are the only station around that sells it. I’ve changed more small engine carburetors destroyed by ethanol blend than I want to count. Before the new Maverick station started selling it, I bought “Tru-Fuel” at $20/gallon. What a racket that company has!
It just REALLY hacks me off that ONE MAN in the entire nation can make this decision for everybody. If he destroyed tens of millions of old cars, it will be worse than Obama’s ridiculous “Cash for Clunkers” program. Expect the demand for newer used cars to explode as old cars are ruined. And ruined for NO GOOD REASON except to placate corn farmers.
Mr. GG2 buys the non ethanol gas for his chain saws etc. There is some gas station near us that sells it. We just got a generator so I guess we have to put it in that also.
Incidentally, whenever I sell my old used truck and replace it with another used one, I test the non-ethanol gas in it for a couple of tanks. It always improves my gas mileage just a hair vs the corn syrup version of gas, but never enough to warrant the cost difference.
I’ve spent the last 25 years rebuilding every one of my 2-cycle engines because of frigging ethanol. It eats at seals, rubber, plastic film, leaves GUNK and destroys plastic fuel line tubes.
Like you, the only option for me for yard machines, etc. is NO ETHANOL GAS.
I buy it for all gasoline powered equipment I own. 20% better gas mileage on my 92 Honda, for instance, is one reason for this.
I make it, easily, from car gas. The store-bought version of it last time I looked was $20/gallon.
The chemistry: ethanol binds weakly to gasoline; ethanol binds strongly to water.
Take a clear 5-gallon jug; pour about 2-3 gallons of gas into it; pour 2 quarts of water into it; shake well; let the cloudy mixture settle for two days; siphon off the new water/ethanol mixture. The pure ethanol-free gas remains.
Where do you get the non-ethanol ?
“I buy the $5.45/gallon non ethanol for my small engines.”
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I did the same for my lawnmower a couple months ago, paying about $4.00/gallon when ethanol gas was around $3.40 here. Now, both prices are up about a dollar from that point. It is literally insane that straight gasoline is more expensive than gasoline with ethanol added to it. When you add something, it should be more expensive.
Of course, the very idea of burning food in our engines at the time of food shortages is literally insane, and the potential damage to engines and the higher cost for gasoline to do so it’s just an added bonus of having environmental freaks in charge of our energy policy.