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Can’t find storage-friendly, ethanol-free gas locally? Did you know you can make your own? There are countless videos on YouTube showing the process–but before you rush off to watch them, keep reading.
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Can’t find storage-friendly, ethanol-free gas locally? Did you know you can make your own? There are countless videos on YouTube showing the process–but before you rush off to watch them, keep reading.
Water has always been in gasoline. Some in the processing but most in storage. Storage from the big tank at the refinery to the tank underground at the gas station. Finally from humid air entering the cars gas tank replacing the gasoline used.
If you look under the hoods of cars from the 1930's through the 1950's some cars had a glass bowl in the fuel line that separated out the water from the gasoline. There was a little thumb screw underneath so you could dump out the glass bowl and hopefully the next time you bought gas there would be less water in it.
Well except they've found a trace of water smooths combustion, cleans deposits, and helps the engine make more power. That's about when the glass bowls disappeared ( or maybe insurance companies discouraged their use?).
There are products to add to gasoline that not only help in keeping water in suspension but prevent the light ends of the gasoline from evaporating.
Ethanol is not a villain. At least no worse than gasoline.
In reply to frenchyd :
"There are products to add to gasoline that not only help in keeping water in suspension "
Yup. It's called ethanol. It's hygroscopic nature works in our favor in this case.
Interesting that they've quoted a fuel industry specialist at a refining Corp to give us information & reasons on why separating ethanol from their product is a 'bad' idea and potentially dangerous. Sure they want us to pay the higher cost for ethanol-free fuel. And why exactly is it more expensive to buy a product that is missing something in the first palce that they add for 'reasons'. Ethanol has less BTUs per gallon than a gallon of unleaded gasoline. I'd rather have all the energy I can get out of my fuels and not some crap that is mandated by the gov't to help get rid of a waste product from the corn producing industrial complex.
It's NOT some kind of a conspiracy theory, it is gov't mandated higher costs for a product.
If done correctly and safely under controlled circumstances, where's the harm? True, some folks may not adhere to safety protocols, but then there's always the Darwin Awards for them.
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