FUEL PROBLEMS with Ethonal

[Diamondpilot]

My new 2015 Silverado 2500 "gasser" is rated for the E85 horse p_ss. It will, however, never see anything but non-ethanol fuel.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/trailers-transportation/317860-new-ride.html#post3850823

Let's see how long that last. Either Government or market demands may make you decision. Around here you can't get pure gas for 200 plus miles.

Chris

 

[lilranch2001]

Less than that Chris. there is pure gas on the north side of Fort Wayne

 

[KiotiKowboy]

Let's see how long that last. Either Government or market demands may make you decision.

So far, in Oklahoma, pure gas is easy to find. I do take your point, however, as eventually tyranny will prevail.

 

[Copperhead]

That has got to be the most amazing thing I have ever read. A state government mandating some level of ethanol is a tyranny. I think that is just about the least of our worries from government. When you start having to spend thousands of dollars a year to jump thru all the regulatory hoops I have to just to run my business, then you might have some standing.

 

[KiotiKowboy]

A state government mandating

(fill in the blank) ... is a tyranny.

A government "mandate" is government FORCE. You may have another name for it?

When you start having to spend thousands of dollars a year to jump thru all the regulatory hoops I have to just to run my business, then you might have some standing.

Me thinks your assumption powers have malfunctioned.

 

[lilranch2001]

That has got to be the most amazing thing I have ever read. A state government mandating some level of ethanol is a tyranny. I think that is just about the least of our worries from government. When you start having to spend thousands of dollars a year to jump thru all the regulatory hoops I have to just to run my business, then you might have some standing.

I have been watching your posts in silence CH, and I am or have been rather starting to wonder about you......

What makes your government caused "extra expense" to run your business any more painful or important than someone else's felt or even perceived tyranny?

I personally take umbrage to your lack of concern for other people pain over your self importance
:thumbdown:

 

[TomSeller]

. Even the gasoline producers will tell anyone who cares to listen that gas will degrade sooner than in the past. The methods to produce it has changed over time. Hydrocracking has become a part of fuel production now, and fuels are not as stable for long periods of time. .

I did not know that. Thanks.

 

[vsteel]

I wonder what you and I are doing wrong because I too have not had ethanol related problems and have been using ethanol laced fuel since it first came out. Since I live in a major corn and soybean production state I've been subject to more incentives to use these fuels than in most parts of the US. I even do stupid things like just park my lawn tractor, weed whips, chain saws, outboards, where they are sitting when the snow starts to fall and then start them up and use them when the snow melts. I must be doing something wrong.

That is pretty much my story as well. I have not had gas go bad on me in a very long time. I remember it worse 20 years ago where I had to use it really fast or it went bad. Now for me it seems to last forever. I store all of my equipment wet, not sure if that makes any difference.

I wonder why you and I never have issues and others have a horrible time. I have never left my equipment outside but it has sat a year and ran just fine, stored wet. Heck my chainsaw has probably not had a dry fuel line in 10 years and never an issue. Starts and runs great every time, new or old fuel, runs the same.

 

[KiotiKowboy]

Heck my chainsaw has probably not had a dry fuel line in 10 years and never an issue. Starts and runs great every time, new or old fuel, runs the same.

I'm thinking we need to hear a little more about that chainsaw

 

[TomSeller]

I always thought that running a small engine out of fuel made for a "damp" carb with a little fuel in it which would be more likely to dry up and leave sediment/varnish. I just run them periodically and keep the tank full