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Ethanol is now at every gas station
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<blockquote data-quote="Late Life Crisis" data-source="post: 304365" data-attributes="member: 4152"><p>91 Premium in Ontario was just base petroleum stock…..no ethanol at least for the majors such as Shell or Esso. The non-ethanol additive package is what gave it the octane bump from the old non-ethanol regular grade fuel. 93 octane was 91 plus around 5% ethanol +/- as an additional octane booster. </p><p></p><p>On strictly a personal basis, I’m not super concerned about 10% in my premium for the cars as they’re both fairly recent vintage. The problem arises with older vehicles which weren’t made with ethanol fuel in mind, plus my small engine stuff, none of those at least to about 2018 model years when I retired got along very well with ethanol of more than 3%-5%. All the aluminum bits in particular would literally dissolve into mush. (You can see that demonstrated on some YouTube vids as well).</p><p></p><p>my small engine stuff will run fine on 87 as long as it’s zero ethanol, so I’ll either make my own de-ethanolized fuel from premium or buy it at a marina at “boating prices”, which are sort of a “Corvette Tax” for water toys.</p><p></p><p>LLC</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Late Life Crisis, post: 304365, member: 4152"] 91 Premium in Ontario was just base petroleum stock…..no ethanol at least for the majors such as Shell or Esso. The non-ethanol additive package is what gave it the octane bump from the old non-ethanol regular grade fuel. 93 octane was 91 plus around 5% ethanol +/- as an additional octane booster. On strictly a personal basis, I’m not super concerned about 10% in my premium for the cars as they’re both fairly recent vintage. The problem arises with older vehicles which weren’t made with ethanol fuel in mind, plus my small engine stuff, none of those at least to about 2018 model years when I retired got along very well with ethanol of more than 3%-5%. All the aluminum bits in particular would literally dissolve into mush. (You can see that demonstrated on some YouTube vids as well). my small engine stuff will run fine on 87 as long as it’s zero ethanol, so I’ll either make my own de-ethanolized fuel from premium or buy it at a marina at “boating prices”, which are sort of a “Corvette Tax” for water toys. LLC [/QUOTE]
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