Ethanol Free Gas

[DragonRdr]

It's that time of the year again, especially for those of us who live in the northern part of the country who put our bikes in winter storage. I'm posting a web site that lists locations in the US and Canada that sells Non-ethanol gas.

https://www.pure-gas.org/

Cheers

 

[Jess from VA]

Good job.   

That site is mostly accurate, but not always.  If you have to make a drive to get it, best to call them before you go.

I only use non ethanol gas in the 35 carburetors at my house (year round), and have to drive 100 mi round trip to get it (30-40 gallons at a time).  The communist save-the-planet local govt's in my region (No VA) won't allow it to be sold. 

I was out there yesterday, and was talking to a gas tanker driver filling up the station out there (with diesel), and he told me he cannot even get it at the central gas terminals up here, and has to haul it all the way from Roanoke VA (southern VA).  He also told me that the old advice to never gas up at a station while a tanker is filling their underground tanks (stirring up the goop in the tank) is pretty much an old wives tale.  He said every pump has three filters in it that clean down to micron size, and there are also filters at the terminals where the tankers fill up.  He did say that old gas stations with in ground metal gas tanks can be a problem with rust.  Very nice young fellow.

[Jims99]

I guess I’m lucky here in central Florida. We have 4 non ethanol stations within 5 miles from us.

[John Schmidt]

All the Shell stations in the Green Bay area sell the hi-test as ethanol free, not sure about other locations around the country. Kinda nice...we have a Shell about 2 miles down the street and it's on the way to anywhere in the metro area.

[Fazer]

Here in the Cincinnati area, we are seeing more and more ethanol free stations.  All the new QT (Quick Trip) and Wah Wah sell ethanol free.  It's about a dollar more a gallon, and only available in 90 octane, but it runs well in my Attic Rattified Valk.  One of the local UDF has it as well.

[Dirty Dave]

In the wonderful province of Quebec, not one ethanol free gas station remains.

[F6Dave]

I was looking at the pure-gas.org site and none of the stations near me are 'Top Tier' certified. I never paid attention to that until last year, when a bad tank of fuel from a Maverick station in Western Colorado caused my car to start running rough (felt like a miss) at higher engine speeds. After about 100 miles it displayed an OBD code along with a 'Service Engine' warning. I looked up the code online and found that it's usually the result of bad fuel, and I should try using high detergent fuel from a Top Tier station. I did exactly that and after 100 miles or so the miss disappeared, and after a few drive cycles so did the error message.

While I use ethanol-free fuel from the nearby Murphy Express in my motorcycles and mowers, I now look for Top Tier stations for my other vehicles.

The car that had the fuel problem is the fairly rare Fusion Sport. It runs Ford's 2.7 Ecoboost V6, with direct injection and twin sequential turbos. It makes a lot of power for a small V6 (325 HP/380 Ft Lbs) and needs high quality premium to run properly. It's quite a sleeper and accelerates as hard as my Valkyries, which you wouldn't expect from a plain looking family sedan.

[Joe333x]

I was looking at the pure-gas.org site and none of the stations near me are 'Top Tier' certified. I never paid attention to that until last year, when a bad tank of fuel from a Maverick station in Western Colorado caused my car to start running rough (felt like a miss) at higher engine speeds. After about 100 miles it displayed an OBD code along with a 'Service Engine' warning. I looked up the code online and found that it's usually the result of bad fuel, and I should try using high detergent fuel from a Top Tier station. I did exactly that and after 100 miles or so the miss disappeared, and after a few drive cycles so did the error message.

While I use ethanol-free fuel from the nearby Murphy Express in my motorcycles and mowers, I now look for Top Tier stations for my other vehicles.

The car that had the fuel problem is the fairly rare Fusion Sport. It runs Ford's 2.7 Ecoboost V6, with direct injection and twin sequential turbos. It makes a lot of power for a small V6 (325 HP/380 Ft Lbs) and needs high quality premium to run properly. It's quite a sleeper and accelerates as hard as my Valkyries, which you wouldn't expect from a plain looking family sedan.

If you have a Costco near you they are a Top Tier station. It's all I use in my valk since we don't have non ethanol near me.

[Pluggy]

Top Tier gasolines have more cleaners added to reduce engine deposits.

https://www.toptiergas.com/

It is rare to find contaminated gas these days. Extra cleaners are no remedy for water or dirt particles carried by the gas.

I only had bad gasoline once.  Got it at a little old cheap station.  I have avoided those ever since.

[Dirty Dave]

Zero in Quebec and only 46 in the gigantic province of Ontario.

What worries me is the slow creep up to 15% ethanol in the next few years.

Father knows best.

 

[F6Dave]

Zero in Quebec and only 46 in the gigantic province of Ontario.

What worries me is the slow creep up to 15% ethanol in the next few years.

Father knows best.

 

On the way to Inzane in Dubuque I wasn't paying attention to the pump labels and starting filling my Wing with E15. I immediately noticed a very different smell and stopped, then switched to E10 to fill the tank. My previous tank was ethanol-free, so I wasn't concerned. But it did make me aware that E15 is out there, especially in corn-producing states like Nebraska and Iowa. I read those labels more carefully now.