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Premium Fuel for Generator Avoid Ethanol Myth
I don't know about other states, but in Iowa the gas coming out of the nozzle must be as the label on the pump states. Regular pump is 100% gas and the premium pump is 10% Ethanol, there are some stations that now sell E 85, meaning 85% Ethanol if your engine is labeled to use it.
Some newer pumps use one hose for all grades which with the amount of fuel in the hose that would alter the purity if you choose a different grade than the customer just ahead of you. I have no idea how much the hose and plumbing inside the pump would hold, probably no more than a quart until your chosen grade pushed it out. Likely it is not enough to be of any consequence, but still it is altered from the intended grade just a bit.
A few years ago a station owner here in Iowa was caught spiking his tanks with a bit of Ethanol by the Iowa Dept. of Agriculture who has the responsibility of checking pumps for measurement and purity of the product at least once per year. As I remember the station owner paid a substantial fine.
Did I worry about using pure gas in my small engines? It depended on how far I would have to drive to get pure gas. The only difference I noticed was in my lawn mowers which were old enough to be carbureted was vapor lock with the Ethanol if I shut them off hot then wanted top restart soon after. I never did replace any gaskets, seals etc., that some blamed on Ethanol.
Frank
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Premium Fuel for Generator Avoid Ethanol Myth
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Regardless of our personal opinions on "Using food for fuel". Remember back when the cost of gas shot up and shortage stories, (true or fabricated) were rampant the public was shouting about we needed to find alternate fuels before we exhausted the oil supply, and yes the government volunteered to wave some of the fuel tax on Ethanol in order to promote production. Yes in the beginning it took more energy to produce Ethanol than you could gain from it, but that has changed with newer methods plus more uses for the by products.
How much the use of Ethanol has affected our price at the pump, I have no idea but I'm sure with an alternate source it took some of the oil company strangle hold from around the neck of the public.
I am very aware that we have hunger in the land of plenty but if using a bit less corn for fuel would solve the hunger problem I too would be all for it, but that never seemed to be the answer. We simply have too many politicians who can't agree on anything let alone how to feed the hungry.
I would love to read a copy of the new farm bill, the old one was some eleven hundred pages long, so I'm sure the new one is longer. The highlights that I've heard take away one percent of food and nutrition dollars. end direct payments to farmers in exchange for a beefed up crop insurance program. Remember even when the direct payments were I effect less than ten percent of the farm bill dollars ever ended up in a farmer's pocket, so now with an end to direct payments the ten percent will shrink too.
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