03-23-2015, 10:24 AM
A good discussion point, although I have nothing to add. The harm, damage and risks of ethanol have long been explored; and as a non-engineer I have little to add to it.
I'm VERY fortunate in that I live in an area where several gas retailers have non-ethanol premium available for sale...they don't even share the common-nozzle that most modern gas pumps use. So, assuming it really is ethanol free...it's uncontaminated.
Costs fifty-cents a gallon more than contaminated regular - and worth every penny, IMHO.
It probably won't be going away, either. In my neck of the woods there's a lot of fishing (with outboards) and snowmobiling and four-wheeling. ORV trails go deep into National Forest land. AND...the government has a forest-fire staging point and hangar here, along with a lot of trail equipment.
The government needs ethanol-free gas so their equipment will run without issues. And outdoors sportsmen on boats, bikes and ORVs need ethanol-free gas - ethanol drinks water like a sponge; in cars it causes poor running. In outboards and small engines, it causes FAILURE.
Failure deep down trails, leads to expensive rescue details. Leads to panicked families and friends. Leads to investigations, which will eventually be forced to identify ETHANOL IN GASOLINE, a pet project among some politically-driven types, as a primary cause.
So...letting us in the outdoors have ethanol-free gasoline, will help alleviate the pressure to get it out of ALL gas.
I'm VERY fortunate in that I live in an area where several gas retailers have non-ethanol premium available for sale...they don't even share the common-nozzle that most modern gas pumps use. So, assuming it really is ethanol free...it's uncontaminated.
Costs fifty-cents a gallon more than contaminated regular - and worth every penny, IMHO.
It probably won't be going away, either. In my neck of the woods there's a lot of fishing (with outboards) and snowmobiling and four-wheeling. ORV trails go deep into National Forest land. AND...the government has a forest-fire staging point and hangar here, along with a lot of trail equipment.
The government needs ethanol-free gas so their equipment will run without issues. And outdoors sportsmen on boats, bikes and ORVs need ethanol-free gas - ethanol drinks water like a sponge; in cars it causes poor running. In outboards and small engines, it causes FAILURE.
Failure deep down trails, leads to expensive rescue details. Leads to panicked families and friends. Leads to investigations, which will eventually be forced to identify ETHANOL IN GASOLINE, a pet project among some politically-driven types, as a primary cause.
So...letting us in the outdoors have ethanol-free gasoline, will help alleviate the pressure to get it out of ALL gas.