On Mar 27, 9:58*am, wrote:
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:49:07 -0700 (PDT), "Robert M. Gary"

We have had 10% ethanol in all gasoline in Connecticut for several
years now. The only real problems for boats were for a brief
transition period. That was due to the ethanol dissolving crud in old
dirty gas tanks, which then clogged jets. Clean the tank and jets and
everything is good. A few old boats had fiberglass fuel tanks that
were damaged by the alcohol. Other than that, it really hasn't been a
big deal at all. I have lots of small yard machines, and they all run
fine with the new stuff too. I've always used Stabil in all gass for
small engines, and Stabil has even been reformulated for gas
containing ethanol.

RELAX!

That's good to know. A friend who has a lot of chain saws (a bit of an
odd guy) got me onto Stabil. I used it in a car I had that had been
sitting and it worked really well. Its good to know that it works well
with ethanol gas. Do you know if it works well with 2 stroke gas too?
I keep regular and mixed gas in my garage for my variety of small
motors (not really boat related though because 2 strokes are banned
almost everywhere in the state on lakes)

-Robert