philh wrote:
Ethanol free gasoline
https://www.pure-gas.org/
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Yeah, that website gets posted often around on this forum.
It IS often incorrect and lists several gas stations near me offering Ethanol free gas which is not really true unless you are going to run your vehicles on the local dirt race track..
Those stations only "offer" Ethanol free racing fuel IF you show your PIT PASS for that night..
Next myth up is "AV" fuel, yeah there is a couple of local airports that do have Ethanol free 100LL. And NO, they DO NOT SELL TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC (AND YES I DID CALL THEM AND SPECIFICALLY ASK).
To get "AV" fuel you MUST present a VALID TAIL NUMBER..
In PA, Ethanol free RACING fuel and Ethanol free AV fuel ARE NOT TAXED THE SAME AS FUELS SOLD FOR ROAD USE, those applications do not get road taxes charged and using those fuels to drive vehicles on public roads is TAX EVASION..
Besides, most folks do not realize that gasoline has been laced with Ethanol since the 1970s (remember "Gasohol"? Yeah it didn't sell then but the corn lobby figured out that they COULD force folks to use it by lobbying regulations into existence that force folks to use it)..
So, in reality Ethanol laced motor fuel has been secretly in use for over 40 yrs..
Not to mention as early as 1905 straight Ethanol was being experimented with for use in ICE engines.. Interestingly enough they figured out back then that it cost more to produce Ethanol than using 100% out of the ground derived gasoline..
