Ethanol Free (almost) Gas Stations within The Villages

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Old 10-23-2022, 11:17 PM
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Unless specially designed for Ethanol, rubber components will be “eaten” over time by Ethanol. Typically, lawn equipment, small power motors, outboard motors, etc. are not designed to ethanol specs. Golf cart motors would fall into that category. Now I may be wrong in that “newer” motors have been modified to accept ethanol without harm - so no foul if I’m wrong….
Yes they have
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What’s “way Cheaper”? $0.05 or $0.10 a gallon?
Golf carts take 5 gallons of gas, so max savings is $0.25 to $0.50 a fill up
About $10-15 a year.
Perhaps valid BUT, JUST like villagers, sellers know each other. We've seen posts about special HIGHER prices for Villagers. If, one seller gets more and sells as much, the others would be poor business people to charge less.

It is your DUTY to see that the guy with the lower price, BEST VALUE, sells more and thus makes more money.
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WAWA on 441, golf cart accessible through the historic section, has ethanol free gas...and is way cheaper than TV golf cart stores. Good place to get a smoothie while you're there too.
Went there today and filled up the cart and a couple gas cans then hit Tropical Smoothie for smoothies and a couple of salads for dinner. Very convenient : (
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Yes they have
Personal experience. I've not had a boat in years. When I did my outboard was like 1974 vintage and yes the alcohol added to the fuel did destroy gaskets.
They had kits to replace the gaskets, a fairly easy thing to do, and all was fine.

Far as golf carts Yamaha says 10% alcohol is fine. Our golf cart is 10 years old, it is fuel injected. We run on regular 89 octane fuel with alcohol added AND IT IS FINE.
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What’s “way Cheaper”? $0.05 or $0.10 a gallon?
Golf carts take 5 gallons of gas, so max savings is $0.25 to $0.50 a fill up
About $10-15 a year.
Price and peach of mind using ethanol free gas beats the hell out of having your cart run like crap and paying a mechanic to clean out a gummed up fuel delivery system.
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I've seen what ethanol does to a small carburetor and it ain't pretty. I throw some fuel injector cleaner in my car's tank every now and then to combat the ethanol.
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The new 7/11 next to Shooter World does have ethanol free REC90.
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Old 10-30-2022, 02:34 AM
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Price and peach of mind...
I like that expression!
Here's the list of EO stations in Florida: LINK

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