Gas question
Sometimes I get bad gas, sometimes I get good gas. With a barrel of oil being so cheap, it it going to make adding ethanol to gasoline a cost prohibitive idea with so much surplus gasoline availa...
Forum Discussion
MFL wrote:coolbreeze01 wrote:
Ethanol is subsidized by tax payers.
Correct, and if we tax payers were not subsidizing this fiasco, we could get rid of it. No one would pay more for ethanol, knowing they would travel less miles per gallon.
Don't forget the supermarket savings, we are burning our food, mixed with gasoline.
Jerry
Actually Congress allowed the Ethanol subsidies to "lapse" on Jan of 2012..
Here is one of the reports on that..
HERE
But, don't get your hopes up.. as long as EPA "mandates" Ethanol for "cleaner air" you will never, ever see it being removed totally from gasoline..
On on better note at least PA has now bucked the EPA and lifted the "mandated" "summer blend" of gasoline :) which amounted to nothing more than a extra hidden tax that easily drove up fuel costs $.15 per gallon and reduced the mileage even further :M
As far as having any issues with Ethanol in my gas.. no problems on my end.. I run it in antique engines, lawn mower, chain saws, weed eater, several generators and all my daily driver modern vehicles..
The ONLY thing I have noticed is if you allow Ethanol laced gas sit long enough in a NON AIR TIGHT can it will pull moisture out of the air to the point it drops out and falls to the bottom of the container as water droplets..
Moral of the story, do not use ALL the fuel out of the can (IE dump the entire can into your tank) or shake up the fuel can very well.. Shaking it will recombine the water into the Ethanol.. The danger to that is if you don't use all the fuel the water will settle out in your gas tank :S
