Star Tron has worked well for me.

Are we stuck with Ethanol blended into gasoline forever?

https://www.realclearscience.com/bl...ure_but_were_probably_stuck_with_it.html

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“The ethanol program functions as a hidden food tax—the most regressive of all taxes,"
Mario Loyola, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, wrote for The Atlantic last year.
"And the effects on poor Americans are magnified for poor countries that depend on imports of food."
Ethanol's government-mandated grasp on agriculture is best exemplified with a startling statistic: "In the United States, the cultivation of corn for ethanol now requires a staggering 38 million acres of land—an area larger than the state of Illinois. By comparison, the total area of cropland used to produce grains and vegetables that humans eat is only about twice that acreage," Loyola wrote.

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And as a side note, there is another subject that isn't heard of much. Our use of ethanol is a major propaganda tool for our enemies. People in third world countries often don't have enough to eat, despite the millions and millions of dollars in food aid that the Unites States donates to them. Our enemies proclaim that us fat, lazy Americans burn food (corn) in our Cadillacs so that we can get to the mall to buy their sweat shop produced shirts and pants.

I know it sounds crazy to us knowing there is a major difference between types of corn. But to the hungry, uneducated masses in some countries, it rings true and gives them just one more reason to hate us.

Our government insists on oxygenators in our fuels. MTBE was the go-to oxygenator for years. Then they discovered that it did not dissipate in water and hung on for a very long time. And it was a carcinogen. So, the next best thing was ethanol. There was good reason why it was not the government's first choice for an oxygenator, but the environment and politics come first, so here we are.

Just another sad saga of the 'tail wagging the dog'. The United States no longer picks the best and the brightest. And more and more we do the wrong thing for all the right reasons.

I have also heard good things about Amsoil's product and this company www.bndautomotive.com

their octane booster is junk

It seems like every small engine shop around here has a display of "ethanol failures" right next to the fuel additives. But I have yet to see it cause any problems that weren't greatly enhanced by lack of use or total lack of care.

Wash the gas with water, the alcohol will attach to the water and you just drain off the mix, it has been done successfully in the aviation world for years to get rid of the alcohol. If you dont believe me, google it. Simple chemistry.

I've found a lot of small engine carbs are caked full of this chalky white ethanol residue inside. I guess that's what's left behind when the fuel evaporates. It seems to slowly eat aluminum as well because I've pulled apart some that were in pretty poor shape internally after.



I've seen this done on youtube but have never had a need to try it. Water added to the fuel and mixed up. Left to sit in a clear container, ethanol/water separates to the bottom and is drained out with a spigot.