A person would have to be mad to come in *here* and defend this crap.
Every single one of our cars has had chronic ‘fuel line’ issues.
Every single one was ‘fixed’ by replacing damaged nearly new lines or parts and adding stuff like Gas Dri, Sta-Bil or Seafoam.
The problem is *always* water in the system which is directly related to the ethanol sucking water from the air.
I hate the effin’ sh**.
-Hate- it.
Somebody upthread said premium octanes have none...apparently MD is different.
That’s what we use in the Harleys and they get the same ‘water in line’ problems.
“premium octane” = “non-oxygenated fuel”
I hate it too. But I will tell you that I have had good performance with something called Sea Foam - a marine additive. I think my dosage is about 20ml per gallon IIRC.
I bought a whole case of the stuff on Amazon.
My family drives 3 cars, one is 10 years old. We have used E10 for about 8 years (mandated back then by a Republican controlled state government) and I have never, ever had a problem related to the fuel line of any kind or any other issue that might possibly be related to the fuel. I know this because none of the cars have required any repairs (except for when I got rear ended by a bunch of illegal Mexicans or a rock hits the windshield, etc. ) or early replacement of filters, etc.
And, speaking of water, I also fly a small plane that normally uses 100 octane gasoline. (Occaisonally if I can find it I can use regular premium car gasoline that does not have ethanol added.) One thing we have to do before taking off is to check and see if there is any water in the fuel tanks. Usually there isn’t, but occaisonally there is. And that is in 100 octane gasoline or non ethanol car gas.
I do not like the idea of gov’t mandating what type of fuel we use but my personal experience with my cars after long term use is that E10 does not cause any engine or other mechanical problems.