I agree that no alcohol gas is better for storage. However, what is
sold as gasoline now is not like the gas of old. But even the gas of
old was stinky and not good after a year. Why not just drain the
tank and run the engine out of fuel? I always drain the tank and run
the fuel out on all the small engines that are used infrequently or
seasonally. My chainsaw is 20-30 years old and I took it into the
shop once a couple years ago because the diaphragm in the carb
deteriorated. It always starts.
Most people just put sta-bil in the tank and forget about it.
It is the greenie weenies that have mandated low emissions, thus
requiring oxygenated "gasoline" fuels. Which would you rather be
around, MTBE or ethyl alcohol? I will pick pure Kaintucky feud oil
anytime over a poisonous carcinogen. Alcohol is the best oxygenating
agent available.
You can make alcohol out of taters, termaters, sugar beets or
whatever, if you'd rather eat field corn to save the field corn from
the disgrace of being turned into alcohol and pork as our forebearers
have done since hitting these shores. Ever read about the whiskey
rebellion?
if you can get your hands on a gallon of gasoline (I sure don't
know how to do it without going to Lake Michigan or an airport), put
a gallon of gasoline and a gallon of E10 in sealed cans. Wait six
months, then open them up and take a sniff. The E10 is more
decomposed than the gasoline, right?
For anything that you have to refuel monthly, E10 just costs you a little MPG.
For anything that goes months or years between fillups (I can go a
looong time on a gallon of chain saw premix, for example) E10 means
you're running stale gas most of the time.
I really want to fill the 2.3-16 with unleaded gasoline before I
park it for the winter, but I don't have that option. It's either
100LL avgas (which will destroy the cat) or E10. Looks like I'll be
filling it with regular E10, and then draining it out to run in the
lawn mower in the spring. Seems a waste to buy 19 gallons of fuel
with the intention of letting it go stale, but having a less than
full tank all winter would be worse.
Mitch.
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