Ethanol or not, if you're running 93 octane in a low compression engine, not only are you wasting money but you're going to have to de-carb often.

My mechanic told me to just stick with 87 octane for my 200 EFI. He said 92 octane wouldn't help a thing and there was no benefit to running it. This was from Ben at Lake Park Marine in Lewisville.

Ethanol is the biggest scam ever forced on us. It takes approx 3.5 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of ethanol and that doesn't include the water that is used for the irrigation to grow the corn. Then there is the cleanup of the polluted water. They say ethanol is cheaper to produce than gas but without govt. subsidies it would be cost prohibitive. The corporate farmers and the ethanol producers are they only ones who benefit and they are the ones paying the lobbyists to help keep this scam alive. I don't even factor in the tree hugger crowd.
Fuel mileage for E85 vehicles is 25% less than for straight gas vehicles. Easy to see who loses especially with the maintenance of our vehicles which can sometimes cost an individual thousands to fix.

Ben definitely knows a thing or two about motors. Probably forgot more than most will ever know.

Ethanol is added to fuel at the distribution terminal when the trucks arrive to fill up. Its precisely added and there is no guessing how much is added. It's added at the same rate for all fuel blends. This is how it's done at the oil company I work for. If you want gasoline with no ethanol you will have to find a place that sells it that way.

Muzzlebrake . Thank you for the link .

Winters Oil fairfield tx

Enderby's hwy 377 north of Whitesboro sells ethanol free gas

Best site for finding what you want for sure. Accurate, and free information.

Ethanol is added to fuel at the distribution terminal when the trucks arrive to fill up. Its precisely added and there is no guessing how much is added. It's added at the same rate for all fuel blends. This is how it's done at the oil company I work for. If you want gasoline with no ethanol you will have to find a place that sells it that way. [/quote]

Maybe at your terminal.

We have independently tested ethanol content from boat fuel tanks and have found as high as 20% ethanol content in several of them.

Gainesville has two stations that sell fuel without ethonl

Has anyone noticed ethanol free fuel around the Lake Lavon and Sam Rayburn area's by any chance ?

The amount of ethanol in gasoline cannot legally exceed the amount advertised on the pump.

I store my boat in McKinney and fish Lavon and Tawakoni. When I need gas between trips to Tawakoni I go to Greenville, Daniel's Best Buy for ethanol free gas. When I fish Tawakoni I fill up at Doc's in East Tawakoni before coming home. The marina on Lavon may have it, don't know, but I am too cheap to pay marina prices for gas.

Key word here is "LEGALLY".
The only way to know is test it.
The percent of ethanol may be incorrectly added by the local fuel distributor or gas retailer. Overblending and "double-blending" is common. Adding 15, 20% or higher amounts of ethanol- (Legal limit=10%). Distributors do this all the time to raise their profits since Ethanol is subsidized and costs them less.


HOW TO TEST FUEL
FOR ETHANOL

This is a way that private airplane pilots sometimes use.

To determine if ethanol is in the gas:

On a test tube or olive bottle six or seven inches long, make a permanent line about two inches from the bottom.
Fill with water to this line, then fill the tube to the top with gasoline.
Cover the tube, agitate it, and let it stand.

The ethanol and water will mix and separate out together. If the water level appears to have increased, the fuel contains ethanol and should not be used. Ethanol percentages of less than 5% can sometimes give a reading below the line. Therefore, any deviation in the water line indicates the presence of ethanol and should serve as a basis for rejecting the fuel.