Gas question

NinerBikes wrote:
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 available for so cheap, compared to corn made alcohol? Thinking about my little honda Eu1000i generator, and how much it hates alcohol in it's carburetor's jets, with varnishing and all.

Short answer is NO, it won't..

Long answer: Alcohol contaminated gasoline has NEVER been a cost saver and never will,, The cost, in terms of barrels of oil, of moving a gasser motor home 1,000 miles on PURE gasoline, is less than (And always has been) than moving the same motor home on E-10 (or e, just about anything greater than 2).

Of course the cost of fuel is lower with Gasahaol but we are not saving oil by boozing up our gasoline..

There is much more like wear and tear on the engine and so on I won't go into.

I will comment on the 1 or 2%... In days of old the commercials for Standard (Later Amoco) Gasoline (American Oil Company, John D Rockefeller's company) this time of year included the phrase "My Advice Sir, Get De-Icer" Standard added about 1% HEET brand gas line antifreeze (wood alcohol, the kind you should not drink) to the mix in the winter. Worked too.. I proved it myself.

Alas, they sold out to British Petroleum (BP) so I do not know if they still do that (Well with E-10, no need).