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delliottg
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Initially Posted - 07/01/2011 : 09:38:24

A friend of mine sent me this link yesterday: [url="http://pure-gas.org/"]Pure-Gas.org[/url]. It's a list of gas stations in the US & Canada that sell E0 (alcohol free) gasoline. His wife is high up in the West Marine hierarchy, and says that WM is going to start advocating E0 gasoline.

You can add & delete gas stations in your area if you know that they sell (or no longer sell) E0 gasoline. You can also download KML files for import into your GPS or Google Earth, as well as a map. The map appears to be broken right now because it doesn't show any of the stations, hopefully it'll be fixed in the near future.

They also tell you how to make your own E0, which is surprisingly easy.

David
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 07/01/2011 : 19:39:20

I'm ranting:
I just don't get it. Oxygenated fuels like E-10 burn cleaner and are not a problem for longer storage with only modest effort. E-10 reduces the real gas consumption about 7%, allows the use of more plentiful lower octane blends since ETOH raises the octane rating a couple of points. Pilot programs have started fermenting things other than food grains to produce ETOH. And your engine doesn't care, just have modern, synthetic fuel lines. Etoh does not damage engines. Produce evidence if you say it does, not anecdotal reports of failed engines that the owner blames on E-10 because it's handy. Lots of research has been done, and E-10 is not guilty.

As an aside, a new alternative source ETOH plant is being built by Grand Lake in Ohio. The lake has been plagued with algae the last couple of years due to heavy rains and farm run off; the new plant will filter algae from lake water to ferment and return clean water to the lake.

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Joe Diver
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Response Posted - 07/02/2011 : 04:45:19

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Dave5041
 The lake has been plagued with algae the last couple of years due to heavy rains and farm run off; the new plant will filter algae from lake water to ferment and return clean water to the lake.
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If that actually works and is financially feasible, come to Texas! We've got some of the greenest lakes around....

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