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Suppose you put 45 gallons of no ethanol unleaded in a barrell with the appropriate amount of stabalizer…… and a year and a half later you use 20 gallons of it. If you fill it back up with fresh gas does this “renew” what was in the barrell? Can you use out of it some and refill it indefinitely? Is there a point where the barrell should be completely emptied and refilled totally? I know some people here will know this answer. Thanks!

The Obama administration is boosting the amount of corn-based ethanol and other renewable fuels in the U.S. gasoline supply despite sustained opposition by an unusual alliance of oil companies, environmentalists and some GOP presidential candidates. The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday issued a final rule designed to increase production of ethanol to be blended with gasoline through 2016, a decision that could reverberate in Iowa's crucial presidential caucuses. The agency said it will require more than 18 billion gallons of renewable fuels in 2016, most of it ethanol. The amount is less than was set in a 2007 renewable fuels...