Using automobile gas with ethanol

Tater Schuld wrote:
"M" wrote in message
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Honestly, the ethanol industry in this country doesn't even have the
produciton capacity to supply a nation wide ethanol mix of 2%. They
can barely supply the current requirement the replace MTBE in those
metro areas and the ethanol price is shooting through the roof.

odd, I could swear all the pumps in wisconsin have placards on them warning
buyers that the gas has 10% ethanol in them

Do the placards read the gas contains that, or something like "may
contain up to 10%"?

Also, it may be the gas station chains simply post the notices on all
pumps... just speculation on my part.

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:44:31 -0500, Jim Carriere
wrote:

Tater Schuld wrote:
odd, I could swear all the pumps in wisconsin have placards on them warning
buyers that the gas has 10% ethanol in them

Do the placards read the gas contains that, or something like "may
contain up to 10%"?

Also, it may be the gas station chains simply post the notices on all
pumps... just speculation on my part.

For those who are interested, I included the procedure for testing for alcohol
in my last EAA chapter newsletter. See page 5 on:

http://www.eaa26.org/apr06.pdf

Ron Wanttaja

I see those placards saying "may contain up to 10% ethanol" a lot in
Washington state. However as of today most of the gasoline sold here
does not contain any ethanol. The reason is ethanol is expensive to
blend into the fuel because it needs to be transported in trucks or
barges from ethanol producing states.

On 25 Apr 2006 21:45:13 -0700, "M" wrote:

I see those placards saying "may contain up to 10% ethanol" a lot in
Washington state. However as of today most of the gasoline sold here
does not contain any ethanol. The reason is ethanol is expensive to
blend into the fuel because it needs to be transported in trucks or
barges from ethanol producing states.

I tanked up here in Seattle just last Saturday, filling my cans at the local
Chevron station. I ran the test...the gas was clear. However, I have detected
alcohol in the past in cases where the pumps indicated that the gas would NOT
contain booze....

Ron Wanttaja