12-26-2014, 08:42 AM
(12-26-2014, 05:32 AM)gossman_imp Wrote: Been running ethanol since 2000 in all my vehicles and boat, never an issue. Since nothing I have is a high compression engine, regular works fine. My emergency generator never fails to start even after a year, my chainsaw, lawn mower, even the 200hp Merc jet pump on the boat starts whenever I want them to. Ethenol reduces our dependence on foreign oil, makes money for the farmers, and reduces air pollution. I can't argue with that.
Oh that hurts the ears of someone like me, who has had motorcycles destroyed by this stuff. Any vintage bike with a fiberglass tank, (such as my Montesa trials bikes), will be delaminated. Bikes with plastic tanks, such as my KTM Superduke, various Ducati, Aprilia, and the Harley XR1200, etc. all suffered damage as their fuel tanks would swell up, no longer fit, crack, etc. Look up info on the damage caused to boat owners with fiberglass fuel tanks. Ethanol is absolutely horrendous stuff that pulls moisture out of the air, and into your fuel, damages older fuel systems, runs hotter, gives less energy per gallon, and on and on and on.
Dig in, and see what Honda, and the other motorcycle manufactures, have to say about the warranty on your bike engine if you put greater than E10 in your bike, yet the EPA continues to try and force it, and would have it by now if not for the anti-ethanol efforts. Even the amount left in the pump hose, at a blender pump, could be enough to damage your bike. One of the EPA's great nuggets of wisdom, in one of the hearings... "We can protect the consumer by making sure that pumps never sell less than 5 gallons of gas, so that any E15, or greater, left in the hose can be diluted." All of your bikes, or small equipment gas cans, hold more than 5 gallons? God bless their ignorance.
Do a little digging, such as on the American Motorcyclist Association (http://www.americanmotorcyclist.com/news...gines.aspx) website and you will find tons if info. Total fiasco thrust on the American public by ignorant, but well meaning, politicians and greedy lobbyists. All that before we ever get to what it did to food and feed prices by inflating the cost of corn...
Please, everyone here do your research. In the long run, when every aspect of every vehicle has been designed for it, then ethanol may be a good thing. But, the transition from now until then, can cause millions in damage that the EPA just seems to want to turn a blind eye to, and the motorcycle owner is one of several key places that damage will hit. Beyond E10, and the poop starts hitting the fan.