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Originally Posted by csx4910
Ethanol is in our Arizona gas now to " help" the air quality(load of crap) but now I have been told that greatly speeds up the degradation and also if fuel sits in it all the time(which most of us probably do) it speeds up the decay
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This is actually a lie - Ethanol is a substitute fuel which can be mixed with gasoline (need another additive). It binds very well with water, so if you have a crook gas station owner - they can fill 1000 gallon water on a 10000 gallon delivery. Net profit $3500...one of the reasons I only fill up on very large gas stations.
Ethanol is bad for the engine especially older ones, it rots many rubber and silicone based gaskets. Even some regular plastics, which are well gasoline proof, decay under the aggressive Ethanol.
in Europe they have 4 choices on the pump - high grade - mid grade - low grade and ethanol mix. They are about to pull the mix of the market because nobody buys (exept some --- you know) that fuel. Even it is cheaper, mid grade gas is $7.56/gal nobody wants it because of the damage to the engine and bad gas mileage results.
As soon they switch to the "summer fuel" my gas mileage drops on my suburban from 18 to 15 mpg.
