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Re: E15 ANOTHER FUEL FIGHT
« on: July 01, 2014, 03:23:59 am »
I get a sneaking suspicion that the local fuel around me has varying amounts of Ethanol, even from the same pump, from week to week?

E10 might be 5% and it may be 25% locally even though it says E10 on the pump?
I read someplace that the ethanol we get does not come blended from the refineries it is most often blended by the distributors. And there are no QA standards that I know of that the distributors must follow.

You fellows are right on.  We've been having that problem (inconsistent eth levels) in gasoline here (in Ca) since the mid 1990's when eth gas was foisted on us as a replacement for MTBE (which had been foisted on us previously).  I was working in an OPE shop at that time.  We would have rashes of roached  new equipment coming in (mostly string trimmers).  We started testing the gas from the fuel tanks for eth content.  Some of it was well over 20%.  Ethanol was getting added to the fuel at multiple points along its journey from the refineries to the pumps.   Bad deal.....

 

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