Hey Drag,
I live in colorado and it has been my experience that performance drops off when you start to use fuel with ethanol blended in. My mpg goes down by about 2. I have also heard that ethanol attracts water, so you may end up with very small water in your tank and fuel lines. Not sure if theres any truth to it so i always stay away from it if i can!

 

I, personally, won't use anything that contains ethanol! JMO!

 

I, personally, won't use anything that contains ethanol! JMO!

Think again Jim. North Carolina is not required to put the ethanol % on the gas gas pumps unless its 15% and over. Some do but most dont so I'll bet you have used it witout knowing.

Here is a state list
http://www.fuel-testers.com/state_guide_ethanol_laws.html

 

where do you get this non ethanol stuff?...seriously!

 

Jester,
alot of stations are switching to fuels that have some ethanol blended in, but they are supposed to list those fuels at the pump. The problem is that most stations just dont care and may or may not let you know. I know you will pay more for non-ethanol blends here in colorado, but more stations are buying ethanol blends only because they are cheaper and you don't know the difference. I put heet, gas tank and fuel line additive in whenever i have to use ethanol blends. heet is supposed to keep fuel lines from freezing(which we have to worry about here, sometimes) and also supposedly removes water. It's cheap, like $1.50 a bottle. I also use lucas fuel stabilizer($9 and some change at walmart) at every fill up, my wife thinks i'm crazy for putting all these additives in, but since they aren't making magnums anymore gotta make the one i have last!

 

Jester,
alot of stations are switching to fuels that have some ethanol blended in, but they are supposed to list those fuels at the pump. The problem is that most stations just dont care and may or may not let you know. I know you will pay more for non-ethanol blends here in colorado, but more stations are buying ethanol blends only because they are cheaper and you don't know the difference. I put heet, gas tank and fuel line additive in whenever i have to use ethanol blends. heet is supposed to keep fuel lines from freezing(which we have to worry about here, sometimes) and also supposedly removes water. It's cheap, like $1.50 a bottle. I also use lucas fuel stabilizer($9 and some change at walmart) at every fill up, my wife thinks i'm crazy for putting all these additives in, but since they aren't making magnums anymore gotta make the one i have last!

I already add lucas, and once a season I run Seafoam. I do the SeaFoam becasue blends change for the season and I travel so much that each state has different refining standards for fuel. but asside from that, nothing else. but I did not know that you can buy fuel without ethanol in it. I will be looking for that for now on.

 

At the local shell stations, for regular it says "up to 10% ethanol". Mid-grade it says "Up to 5% ethanol", and for the Premium Shell "V-power" it says "contains no ethanol". All 3 grades are 2 octane lower than what the Husky advertises, and they have ethanol in all of their fuels.

 

Ethanol will bump the octane rating, here regular unleaded is 87, regular with 10% ethanol being 89 octane. I also heard that with all this green energy crap coming down the pipe, they want to make all gasoline blended with 18% minimum. And that will be coming straight out of the refinery with ethanol added before it leaves the plant. So essentially, no matter how much we love our cars and want to treat them right, they will force ethanol down our throats whether we want it or not!