Ethanol-free gasoline!

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Ken Secor

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Jan 13, 2013
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Catalina 22 Lake Champlain
As everyone knows, ethanol laced fuel is bad news for both carbs and injectors.

Sta-bile helps, as does Chevron's "Techron" as does Sea-Foam, etc. but this is akin to putting fertilizer on a weed. The problem is the ethanol, not what we use to minimize its devastating impact.

I stumbled upon this website and although we have an ethanol-free pump at the closest station to home, here in VT (lucky me) - I was amazed to see not one ethanol-free station in my former state of residence; NJ

My lawn mower, chain-saw, weed whacker, emergency generator and C-22 OB motor LOVE the stuff. Here's the link: http://pure-gas.org/

Go to the site and at the bottom of the page you'll see almost every state listed. Click on your state(s) and see where the good stuff is ;)
 
Phil Herring

Phil Herring

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Mar 25, 1997
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Thanks for posting this, I had no idea there are stations that don't sell ethanol. I'm going to move this over to Ask All Sailors for better exposure.
 
dziedzicmj

dziedzicmj

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Aug 13, 2012
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Catalina 270 Ottawa
This may apply to Canada only, but as far as i know all Shell stations sell the premium gasoline without any ethanol added.

mdz
 
richk

richk

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Jan 24, 2007
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Marlow-Hunter 37 Deep Creek off the Magothy River off ChesBay
You can also use AvGas in a pinch...more expensive, but usually available at a community airport.
 
Sumner

Sumner

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Jan 31, 2009
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Macgregor & Endeavour 26S and 37 Utah's Canyon Country
We put in a 19 gallon tank in the Mac...

http://purplesagetradingpost.com/sumner/macgregor2/outside-35.html

...before going to Florida and filled it at home to avoid the ethanol but then found ethanol free gas at marinas along the trip. Just because there is no 'car' filling stations selling ethanol free gas doesn't mean that you might not find it at marinas,

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wetass

wetass

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Mar 9, 2011
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CS 36T Seattle
Around here, Puget Sound, I have found the Spirit gas stations (at least in Seattle) are ethanol free as is the Cenex (Gas, feed, etc) store in Poulsbo WA. These are the ones I use.

The funny thing about these gas stations (especially the Cenex) is that sometimes I see a line of cars and everyone is filling up their jerry jugs - no one is putting the gas into their cars, just jugs. ;-)
 
Charlie Jones s/v Tehani

Charlie Jones s/v Tehani

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Mar 1, 2012
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1961 Rhodes Meridian 25 Texas coast
Found ethanol free fuel at many many marinas from Annapolis Md, all around to Texas. Sadly there is none available at any place near where I live and sail. So I rely on Sea Foam and Stabil and rotating fuel into the vehicle before it gets TOO old.
 
centerline

centerline

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Mar 20, 2012
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Cal 34-III, MacGregor 25 Salem, Oregon
maybe I didnt go to the right places, but when we were in the SanJuan islands, Washington state, this past summer, there did not seem to be option for purchasing ethanol free gas at the marinas.... it was all regular ethanol gas. I was disappointed but have learned not to expect too much from some of the remote areas.
we still had the best time I have ever spent on the water, during the 12 days we were there....

I use the ethanol free gas in all my equipment except the car as it is illegal for on highway use here, and not recommended for any engines that are equipped with a computer, fuel injection and a catalytic converter.....

all of my boat motors, ATV's, chain saws and all yard equipment run more dependably on it with less seasonal maintenance (have never had to take one into the shop for repair since switching to ethanol free gas 6 years ago)...

they start easier, run so much better and never gum up even if they set for a few months between starts....
 
Chris Patterson

Chris Patterson

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Oct 17, 2011
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Ericson 29 Southport..
I use it in my Suburban. At 14 MPG I've probably made better economical decisions, but the truck seems to run better. Could be the simple fact that it's also 93 octane, (All GoGas's here sell e-free 93, in fact ALL high-test is e-free). I have never heard about the computer and injector thingy, and I could be destroying it for all I know. I don't care. If it blows all to hell I'll buy another one. G.M. and Dodge are up there building trucks everyday. And besides, I despise a gas burner anyway. Wouldn't it be cool to own a little Cat diesel dink outboard? With turbo..

(Waitaminute. The nurse just walked in)
 
thinwater

thinwater

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Mar 26, 2011
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Corsair F-24 MK I Deale, MD
Just to make things more complicated....

Switching from e-10 to non-ethanol gasoline can cause phase separation, if the e-10 contains some water and the tank is not empty. This is because the solubility of water in ethanol/gasoline blends in non-linear.

http://gillesenergies.webs.com/phaseseparation.htm

Best to pick one or the other and stick with it, unless you can empty the tank. Adding non-ethanol gas to a tank of e-10 will NOT improve it, since mixtures with less than 10% ethanol are less stable; you better start with 100% non-ethanol gas.

Personally, I've not found e-10 hard to deal with, once I learned the rules. That it is bad public policy for the world is a separate issue.
 
Gene Neill

Gene Neill

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Sep 30, 2013
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1988 Catalina 22 North Florida
Ethanol is an abomination, plain and simple. As Americans, we have all been forcefully sodomized by ethanol, against our will and at our own expense.

Even the High Priest of the Church of Manmade Global Warming (now that he is no longer wooing the votes of Iowa corn farmers) has publicly stated that first-generation ethanol "serves no useful purpose".

He failed to add, "except for F-ing up gasoline engines".
 
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