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Default Speaking of ethanol...
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On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:19:36 -0400, iBoaterer
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In article ,
says...

Every problem I have heard about ethanol involved old gas but "old" is
measured in months not years..

True, the same with gas without ethanol.

Ethanol takes a problem that used to occur in years and made it a
problem that occurs in months.
The problem is, ethanol absorbs water from the atmosphere, gasoline
doesn't.
In fact that is one way to figure out how much ethanol there is in the
gas. Add water to it, let it settle and measure how much gas is left
compared to where you started..

It certainly doesn't take "years" for gasoline to turn to gummy crap.
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