Posted by oldtanker on October 12, 2018 at 06:08:52 from (66.228.255.59):
In Reply to: 15% ethanol gas ? posted by Mike M on October 11, 2018 at 07:42:40:
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Look at where you live JM. I'll bet none of your small engines sit idle any amount of time. Where I live it's common for them to sit unused 6 months or more. Very common for a boat motor to get started the 1st of May or thereabouts and get put away after labor day weekend. Lawn mowers are not used until mid to late APR and are put away by the end of Sep. Likewise the snowmobile and ice augers may get 4 months on a good year although the last few years have been more like 4 days, walk behind snow blower the same. Here about the only thing with a small engine that gets run year round of lawn tractors is the owner has a snowblower on it in the winter. Ethanol laced gas doesn't start going bad until about 90 days without stabilizers and with about 6 months.
I myself have never had a problem with it.
I just don't like being forced to use something that no one can prove is beneficial to me personally. Right now I try to follow the law but every time I'm someplace that I can gas up with straight gas I do and I can legally run straight gas in my boat and small engines.
I do however have friends in both the "recreation" and small engine repair business. They all will tell you that love ethanol because it gives them a lot of work in the spring and fall. We have a lot of lakes around here and thus a lot of lake homes. Many are empty from mid Sep to mid APR with boats and lawn equipment sitting in the garage that because of sitting that long with ethanol are going to be in for repairs. Likewise the regular folks who know nothing about gas have snow machines/ice augers and lets not forget the generators for the ice fishing houses that have been sitting for 8 months.
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