High ethanol fuel bad for engines!

[Lee Borgersen]

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                       High ethanol fuel is bad for engines!

 

Did you know that the higher the level of ethanol in your fuel, the more likely you are to destroy your engine? When levels go above 10 percent, fuel burns hotter and often reduces engine life. But adding more is exactly what ethanol makers are trying to push past the EPA.

 

What's at stake? You could harm your car or boat. Engines in older cars and trucks are more easily damaged and wear out faster when run on high ethanol fuels.  Worse, small engines - like the two-strokes found in many bass boats - are even more susceptible to damage because the ethanol often washes the oil off cylinder walls.

 

But this issue has good news. Currently, there is legislation moving through Congress that will protect our engines. A new bill, the Renewable Fuel Standard Reform Act of 2015, would cap the amount of ethanol in fuel at the already recommended 10 percent.

 

What can you do? Inform your Representative that this is an important issue to you, so they don't miss the opportunity to co-sponsor this legislation. Tell them you don't want higher-ethanol fuels that damage and destroy engines.  It just takes a few steps on our website.

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[beeker]

there are a few gas stations around that sell the "hot rod fuel" which has no ethanol in it. you pay a bit more but i run it in all my small engines.  tesoro on 17 in stacy an fleetfarm in cambridge has it... those are the 2 i know of

[The General]

Ethanol is a subsidized joke.

[Wyofish]

Not only does it raise feed costs for livestock producers, but it raises whiskey costs for drunks!

[Fawkinnae]

Ethanol is a subsidized joke.

Could not agree more.