New E-15 Ethanol Gas creating BIG problems!

Well the first primary state is Iowa, it will be interesting to hear the candidates from both sides try and avoid this issue and come up with non answers!

Checked the political climate in this country lately? I'll be surprised if any legislation gets passed, much less one as controversial as this. I echo Ychtcptn's statement. It'll look like an episode of Dancing With the Stars.

That is superlative news.

Great news! Now maybe we can keep those squeezins out of the tank and back in the jar where they belong!

Bob Seger said it best (re corporate/political class) "I used her, she used me but neither one cared....we were getting our share"

Great repost, good stuff.

All the automotive diesel in Europe has at least 10% Ethanol in it according to the stickers on the pumps.

Most of you are parroting the people that want to end oil in any form. Somehow with a windmill and electric tractors, farmers can work their fields. Maybe on a bicycle??? You hear one side of the issues and become a believer. While it takes diesel to make ethanol, many farmers grow a crop like oil seed to make their own biodiesel. There are several "home" biodiesel plants for sale. So a farmer making his own fuel isn't using "more diesel than the ethanol produced". And the fuel dollars stay on the farm.
Also, the ethanol grain isn't lost. Dried or wet, it makes an excellent animal feed. The fed grain displaces an equal amount of grain harvested and fed in the old way.
So to recap, to make ethanol you may or may not use diesel. The leftover brewer's grain has already had the diesel charged against it. The animal feed is actually produced energy free (except for a small amount of electricity for brewing). Cows do better on brewers grain than traditional grain rations. I know. A long time ago I had a dairy for 3 years. Long story, but I fed wet brewers grain and the cows produced more milk. I don't remember the numbers, but 100 acres of oil seed would have met all my diesel needs.
So what is the real hidden agenda?

Ethanol free fuel is not available in Europe to the best of my knowledge. The dilution of fuel with FAME is a real life issue and one of the reasons we demand a statement on the BDN as the FAME contents and then verify it by FOBAS.

That said I have left weed whackers, leaf blowers , chainsaws, snow plough and a mower over winter with the fuel in the tank. The only one that gives problems is the mower that has a plastic cone that doubles as a carbbie. This ends up with a couple of dark globules in it which when blown out and reassembled the mower runs fine for the summer.

Yep, That's old, water absorbed S#%$& (stuff) gas.
Not only does the alcohol effect rubber and gaskets, dissolves varnish that should be left alone, it adsorbs water and when it sits, the water attacks alloys and metals.You can see in the pic water damage to the carburetor.

Remember when we used to ad de-natured alcohol to our gas to remove water. I'd say maybe 0.10 percent max. The instructions were to burn the remaining fuel completely before adding fresh fuel.
Worked fairly well.
Now it's at 10% and soon 15% alcohol and you can not clear your tank of this poison....

How quick the reports of glass tanks falling in and killing engines has passed and been buried.

Oh, remember, the government (at higher cost) is here to help.

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Yep, I have an axe to grind. Gas-ass-all is a great example of bending good people over.

The presence of white crud in the carb of an engine that has been left laying around for a long time is not a new phenomenon. I remember seeing that sort of thing nearly 50 yrs ago in some of the old vehicles we used to get running now and again.