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Use non ethanol gas for small engines, especially 2 cycle. I think the station up in Mtn View supplies. Ethanol does not blend with the lubricating oil you mix in the gas, and it burns hotter. I use both products mentioned, depending which on sale, to keep the gunk from clogging my injection system. Cars I run Chevron with the Safeway credit, always at least 1/2 full in case $&@$ hits fan. I'll be honkin' and wavin' as I go by you waiting in line for gas!
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"If their gasoline is less than 10 % they are violating a state law."
If I understand the law correctly, the gasoline doesn't actually have to contain ANY ethanol, only that the ETBE added to the fuel comes from an ethanol base instead of being made from crude oil. "Gasoline blended with an ethanol-based product, such as ethyl tertiary butyl ether, shall be considered to be in conformance with this chapter if the quantity of ethanol used in the manufacture of the ethanol-based product represents ten per cent, by volume, of the finished motor fuel."
http://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/rules/15-35.pdf
from wiki: Ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE) is commonly used as an oxygenate gasoline additive in the production of gasoline from crude oil. ETBE offers equal or greater air quality benefits than ethanol, while being technically and logistically less challenging. Unlike ethanol, ETBE does not induce evaporation of gasoline, which is one of the causes of smog, and does not absorb moisture from the atmosphere.
Ergot, no ethanol required to be in the gasoline, only that 10% by volume of ethanol was destroyed in making the gas additives. The EPA doesn't really care where the ethanol goes, so long as we pay at the pump to ensure that farmers are growing corn instead of wheat.
