[Bob Tanner]

For any of you out there happily using E-10 Ethanol in your auto, boat or small engines, you might find the enclosed link interesting:

More Bad News For Ethanol - Lawsuit Seeks Class Action Status For Damages Caused by Ethanol Blended Gasoline

In addition to the info in the link, ethanol is also a solvent. If you don't drive your car every day, you also might run a danger of it loosening up the gook in your fuel tank, those sending it to the injectors or carb. If this is the case, I hope you use a really good fuel filter!

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

For any of you out there happily using E-10 Ethanol in your auto, boat or small engines, you might find the enclosed link interesting:

More Bad News For Ethanol - Lawsuit Seeks Class Action Status For Damages Caused by Ethanol Blended Gasoline

In addition to the info in the link, ethanol is also a solvent. If you don't drive your car every day, you also might run a danger of it loosening up the gook in your fuel tank, those sending it to the injectors or carb. If this is the case, I hope you use a really good fuel filter!

Exact issue that my son-in-laws father had with his boat this summer.

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

Exact issue that my son-in-laws father had with his boat this summer.

I recently heard a marina owner on Talk Radio (BTW, we might as well get our talk radio fix now. After January 20th, there will be a big movement to get it off the air waves - fodder for another thread) interviewed last week. He is in the Naples, FL area. He claimed his marina has done an average of 2-3 engine rebuilds or replacements each month this summer due to the ravages of E-10. The alcohol absorbs water (as the court found) and we all have heard horror stories of water-in-the-gas-tank," right?

Let's see... Our Imperial Government has:

(1) Mandated Ethanol gasoline. (I'm not sure about this but it sure feels like they have)

(2) Mandated fluorescent light bulbs for our homes by 2012. This have been proven to cause epileptic seizures and technically, if you break one in your home, you expel dangerous mercury vapor into the air and a HazMat team should be called in, to clean up the mess?

(3) Mandated Digital TV transmission by 2/09. I haven't figured out the mass positive effect of this yet.

Those are for openers, but I can come up with a few more examples.

[Weird harold]

Yeah we used to have to use Heet in our gas tanks in the winter, till about 10 years ago, when they started putting 10% alcohol in the gas.

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

I recently heard a marina owner on Talk Radio (BTW, we might as well get our talk radio fix now. After January 20th, there will be a big movement to get it off the air waves - fodder for another thread) interviewed last week. He is in the Naples, FL area. He claimed his marina has done an average of 2-3 engine rebuilds or replacements each month this summer due to the ravages of E-10. The alcohol absorbs water (as the court found) and we all have heard horror stories of water-in-the-gas-tank," right?

Let's see... Our Imperial Government has:

(1) Mandated Ethanol gasoline. (I'm not sure about this but it sure feels like they have)

(2) Mandated fluorescent light bulbs for our homes by 2012. This have been proven to cause epileptic seizures and technically, if you break one in your home, you expel dangerous mercury vapor into the air and a HazMat team should be called in, to clean up the mess?

(3) Mandated Digital TV transmission by 2/09. I haven't figured out the mass positive effect of this yet.

Those are for openers, but I can come up with a few more examples.

So that Circuit City and the others can sell a new TV to everyone. isn't that good for the economy ???

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by Weird harold

Yeah we used to have to use Heet in our gas tanks in the winter, till about 10 years ago, when they started putting 10% alcohol in the gas.

HEET is an antifreeze, which helps prevent the water from freezing in the lines. E-10 is a blend which increases fuel separation, causing the water and alcohol to drop to the bottom of the tank causing corrosion and can actually increase the chance of freezing as the amount of alcohol decreases through fuel usage.

Here a pretty decent read on the subject: About Ethanol, an alcohol blend gasoline made from corn/grains...

[Weird harold]

Gold Eagle - HEET

I do remember now people having trouble when they first started putting 10 % ethanol in our gas, maybe it was more than 10 years ago. Anyways it dissolved the sludge in gas tanks, easy enough fix, change the fuel filter.

[sportsRme]

Yes you should really only put E-10 in engines and systems that are setup up for it. The hoses need to be different, the pump should usually be a little larger etc. etc. Its not bad stuff though, my friend built himself a turbo car and has only run E-85 for the past few years without a single problem. But he built the car to run it properly. Its actually better for cars like his because it has a higher octane rating, so he can advance the timing more and safely producing more power. But it has a lower specific output, so even though E-85 is even cheaper than unleaded it takes more of it to go the same distance.