An endless debate
Gasoline sold at stations for cars will have a sign on the pump contains 10% alcohol. Your opinion does not really matter, our government has forced this-like it or not. You can find 15%
alcohol fuel if you try. The fuel is more expensive and has less energy so I wonder why anyone would purchase it.
Even if you want to buy it, perhaps anti oil or? BEWARE not all cars can use this fuel. The seals, hoses etc need to be able to take the alcohol.
Here, marathon sells alcohol free gasoline. It is marked for small engine use. The reason it says small engine use is because THE LAW is your automobile must be fueled with a gasoline alcohol mix.
All gasoline is the same. In fact it flows out of the same pipe. The difference is the ADDITIVE PACKAGE added by each seller. With a BRANDED gasoline, you know what you are getting. OFF BRAND, and you don't know. Low cost is your motivation and has to be the motivation of the retailer.
According to my reading, the two BRANDS commonly sold around here, with the highest detergent packages are SHELL and CHEVRON.
We use SHELL because PUBLIX runs a spend $50 and get a $50 gas card for $40-that is 20% off. They run that about once a month. We also have a free loyalty card that saves us another couple of cents off the pump price. DISCOVER card also offers a point redemption plan with Shell.
I add STABIL BLUE-the one for fuel with alcohol in it to my golf cart. ALL GASOLINE oxidizes overtime. The stabil is supposed to slow down the oxidation allowing you to store gasoline for a claimed year. It is inexpensive so why not.
IN SUMMARY-we use Shell, we add Stabil, we have a yamaha fuel injected and it is five years old-NO TROUBLES AT ALL considerably less expensive than the nonalcoholic fuel that you csn buy.
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