Katie Ohara wrote:
On Sep 26, 10:53 pm, Katie Ohara wrote:
On Sep 26, 8:51 pm, Tim wrote:



On Sep 26, 7:43 pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:27:39 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:
being used for boat fuel.
I knew the stuff can deteriorate, but i didn't know it could break
down in as little as two weeks!
http://www.powerboat-world.com/Ethan...l-never-be-%27...
That's a recent article based on old data.
While it doesn't have exactly the same shelf life has non-ethanol gas,
it hasn't produced the storage problems in a majority of situation
that were forecast.
Now, in areas where there are cold temperature extremes in the winter,
yeah - it's very possible that you will get phase seperation in
ethanol blends due to significant warming and cooling cycles. It seem
to be a particular problem in the border states with Canada.
Then again, I havne't heard a lot of horror stories out of Canada
about it.
Tom, can you lead me to some updates on that? it's pretty interesting.
IT IS BAD here in FL. The stuff has caused me incredible problems.
Ethanol in gas should be banned.

In fact, Monday, I will get a device to siphon my boats fuel tank to
use said fuel in my truck so it will not sit and absorb water. I had
to put in 9 gals of E10 last week cuz I could not get ethanol free
although I did add Stabil. From now on,I s'pose I will have to siphon
the tank whenever I buy E10.

Frogwatch

I tries t tankful of pure gasoline a few weeks ago and mileage dropped
almost 2 MPG. Not exactly what I expected.