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10-09-2024, 08:13 AM | #309 |
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It's too bad there are very few service stations anymore that serve up non-ethanol fuels. There are only 2 that I am aware of in Cinci and if I'm in the area on the motorcycle, I will fill up there. I used to get it for the lawnmower and small engine needs since they are more sensitive to the ethanol but it's just become a pain to do.
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Anyone here have fuel quality related issues they think would have been prevented by using Shell gasoline (or whatever the non proven "best" brand is)?
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I'm also happy I haven't been driving across town for the last 16 years to get non ethanol gas for my lawnmower. Considering the hassle of the 40 minute round trip and the high price for the fuel I don't see it being worth the benefit. I don't know of any performance benefits I am missing out on for my 16 year old Toro push mower with a Honda engine. Quote:
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I talked with the owner/manager about this and he said not that many bought the ethanol free gas. Mostly people with power equipment that needed ethanol-free gas and a few random car owners. The gas tanker truck only delivers ethanol free gas about once every 3 to 5 months. Based on that, I'm probably never getting the ethanol free gas because it's "stale" gas. Compared to the 87/89/93 gasoline, which receive new gas delivery at least once a week, with "fresh" gas. |
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It tends to be more readily available in areas that have marinas as boats are large consumers of ethanol free fuel.
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Part I am not sure of is if the mower fuel (coming from the container, mower sat dry all Winter) had some small amount of water in it, as long as it wasn't enough water to affect operation, if it would matter. Mower engine is pretty low tech and I don't see where some tiny amount of water going through it for a use or two would hurt anything long term.
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I tried using Kroger (because points) in my daily G37 (11:1 compression) for almost a year and within 5 miles of using Shell - FIRE!!! I never used Kroger crap after that. I hear the same from others about oil and "no issues" but you can eat at McDonalds for every meal and stay alive...
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Ethanol also raises octane a lot, which is why some people go to high alcohol fuels, for high horsepower applications. It can/does prevent detonation, allowing more advance timing. I've used E10 in my lawn tractors, lawn mowers, snow blowers for nearly 4 decades without a single problem. I have been storing cars with a full tank for 5-6 months a year, for decades, with no adverse effects. Much of the problems with ethanol was before cars had seals, gaskets, fuel lines that were designed for newer fuels. Ethanol was hard on certain type of rubber.
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back when I was living in the DMV, my neighbor's parents owned two Exxon(or Mobil) stations. They almost never lowered their prices to compete with two other gas stations literally just across the street from them. I asked them about that once. They told me that apparently "most" drivers didn't bother checking the prices before pulling into a gas station. They just go to the one that's on the way, or does not require them to make a turn(U-Turn or otherwise). Speaking of gas prices, I was just talking with my friend in Switzerland. She told me that she just got gas this morning and it was the equivalent of USD$8 per US gallon. (!!!) So I guess I shouldn't be complaining about gas prices? |
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The closest station to my house is/was a Shell and I filled there almost exclusively with whatever car I’ve owned. They had rebranded as Circle K at some point post-Covid and I didn’t realize it for like a year lol. They both have the same color scheme generally (yellow) and I didn’t realize that they changed until I was snapping a few pics of my car under the gas station lights. I continue to go there because as I mentioned, it’s closest to my home.
The next closest is a Chevron. My beater is a 2007 V8 XC90 and I’ve been filling it with premium since it was new. Stopped at Chevron yesterday and premium was exactly $1 more than regular. I have never noticed such a large gap in price but went for it anyway.
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Premium used to be 20 cents more. Like 10 years ago. Then they figured out that they had a captive audience who would pay anything - performance owners (and others) with superchargers and turbos. Now it is "regularly" $1.00-1.20 more in my neck of the woods. Pun intended.
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That’s why your fuel economy drops 10% when it get introduced every fall. You have to burn more ethanol to make equal power to petrol, it’s only benefit is that it is more detonation resistant because it is slower burning and can be lower stoich , so then if you aren’t N.A. you can run more boost and (if you have enough injector) even more fuel to over come the much lower PE and make more power than you could on regular pump gas.
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