Newer vehicles e10 will last a long time even when not in use . The fuel system isn’t vented to the atmosphere. So no water vapor can condensate in the tank or be absorbed by the fuel . Put E10 in an older vehicle and you will have problems just being stored over the winter months . All my FI vehicles get E10 my old cars and power equipment get 91 E free high test . It was 3.79 a gallon yesterday at Stewart’s shop .
In general vehicles here never sat long enough to have issues. I used to drive over 80 miles a day to work M-F and on Saturday it was not uncommon to drive 200 or more miles chasing equipment. For awhile I drove one that had a leak where the filler neck enters the tank so about 10 gallons was all you put in it. With that being said I have had vehicles that did get parked for various reasons. When needed they all started but ohhh yeah that fuel was foul smelling. One of the funniest was an Ford Escort GT. It had a bad water pump and was spewing coolant. It was not worth messing with as I only gave $125 for it. I parked it in the lower yard where it sat for probably 5 years. I was by a tire shop in a town south of me one day and saw these guys working on an Escort for the 4cyl race class at the track. I stopped asked if they wanted another. They said they would come up the next day. Before they got here I figured I would at least try starting it. The son of a gun fired right up but she smelled foul. They drove it on their trailer and paid me $200
Well I politely do not agree that we burn more fuel producing the ethanol fuel. It is my belief that is propaganda put out by oil companies. They are scared it will hurt them but in fact it will not. As for environmental concerns the more plants we have growing the more CO2 can be taken from the environment. Folks are stuck thinking agriculture is like what it was 50 years ago and it simple is not, not at all.
I HATE that crap! Nothing but trouble! Is it OK to hate here @grizz55chev
I have not had trouble with it. I have had trouble with bio-diesel but that can be avoided also. It is pretty scary though when you are bring a combine up the big bluff hill in the middle of the night and the fuel filters clog with algae. Once that engine dies you have zero anything...no steering, no brakes
Do you have about 30 small engines and old trucks sitting around with E gas in them right now that you dont use a lot in the winter? It gets to be a full time job keeping stuff working with that crap gas. Dong use it if you can help it.
Well we had had the irrigation debate in other threads and I realize that irrigation is an issue in certain areas but here it is a huge cost benefit to those who do not irrigate as it saves us tax dollars. Every gallon they use is one less gallon we have to pump back into the river. Also the vast majority of corn is not irrigated. Here you cannot irrigate unless you are in a low are with a high water table. If you are then most (not all) of the time you are in an are that has excess subsurface water that has to be pumped back to the river. The reason you irrigate is because the soil is very course and will not hold water so you have to keep applying it.
See the problem is there are no E free stations here.
Where in Canada is that? Ethanol seems to be federally mandated.
Yes and that stinks to high heavens! I am a farmer and corn producer. I 100% support ethanol but it has it's place and it's place is not in an engine that will sit for an extended time. Bio-diesel does not belong in engines that will sit either. I cannot understand states that do not allow the sale of non-ethanol fuels. That is a bunch of political BS and I will doubt you will find a farmer that supports that. We support ethanol but still are bright enough to know when to use it. You do not put it in your Farmall M that you take on the Iowa Tractor-cade. You do not put it in your mower that will sit all winter. I know a family that put up the first 1 million dollars to get the ball rolling years ago on a ethanol plant. I bet they do not even use it in small engines. Actually knowing them I doubt with the exception of a trimmer they even have a gas engine on the place.
Do you have a point?
Have you ever seen me support a mandate of any type?
Hmmm...vodka for $3.50 per gallon (or let's say $1.75 if ya cut it to 100 proof)? Now ya got the wheels turnin
