Guess who could give a damn "who hasn't had any problems with crapoline" likewise, who cares about wisdom about what people have built from scratch to run on crapoline?
There are parts of the country where you CAN NOT BUY ALCOHOL-FREE GAS. And for what? to jack around grain prices and accomplish nothing regarding the global something something. The closest non-alcohol to me is over an hour away, and it's only available in Premium blend, which virtually all small engines aren't supposed to be fed. Best I can do is 98 miles away where I can get no alcohol mid-grade for my snowblower, lawn mower & edger, chipper-shredder, 1960's chainsaw, 1972 motorcycle, 1964 car, and the list goes on. That means I get to transport 3-4 gallons at a time in a can, in a personal vehicle. That's not recommended either. I resent getting flucked with by clowns who know gasohol is the answer to no question, and azzhats who tell me to just grab the K-Y. I won't bother to list off problems I've had with crapoline in small engines, and I can't keep track of what items I have with hoses, seals, and O-rings that aren't compatible.
I'm with you. (all the way)
Just because it's fine in modern fuel injection (though never as fine as straight gas) does not excuse the fact that it is hard on every other damn thing that runs with a carburetor. And very possibly damaging (to some degree) if you don't keep track of what gas is in what machine, and for how long (since the can AND the fill up), and was it treated?
IF you are careful to fun fresh (and I've read in 30 days it's already starting to not be fresh), and run machines empty (another good way to get a chunk of something in the carburetor) or dump it out of everything it might ever sit in for even 2-3 months (and the bowl too), you might be OK. So you treat it and hope it's OK. But there is
always a risk of getting gummed up (and not run), so you always have to keep an eye on the gas in cans, and everything with carbs it runs in.
Long term storage of corn gas is a sh!tty idea (treated or not). I like to keep 15-20 gallons on hand (in a very hot shed over half the year). If I was to only run
fresh corn gas, I'd need to throw all my cans out except a 2gal, and another 1gal for 2 stroke mix, and then drive to the gas station all the time. And have nothing on hand for an emergency generator. That plan sucks.
Why does the best country in the world have to have gas that must be treated to be reliable, and be a source of constant irritation (and oversight) for everything not fuel injected?
The EPA says E10 costs only 3% of energy, but thousands of people have reported 6-10% loss of fuel efficiency in individual vehicles. I found this in a 2011 Road and Track article:
with 189 operating U.S. ethanol plants looking for a place to sell their fuel as of January 2011, and the so-called corn lobby having pressured Congress to mandate 36 billion gallons of ethanol be blended into gasoline by 2022. That physically can't be done with E10, hence the move to E15..... I own one modern fuel injected truck.
And I have 21 carburetors (minus two Valks = 9 other machines that are important to me and my life, and not one of them was free).
I have been a good customer (unfortunately) of one of those small but amazingly great lawnmower and small engine repair shops for going on 20 years. We know each other by our first names. They love corn gas.
I like farmers. If they have to have some kind of help, I can't think of a better corporate welfare to have than the folks that feed us. Or just charge the real cost it took to grow with no supports.
Make more corn liquor. Something!
