Thread: Alcohol/gas

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The gas we get now just plain sucks. It's catering to the EPA and the government for all the new "Green" type vehicles. At work we have gas vehicles that go through a carb every year and a half. The alcohol content was up to 40% in our equipment a couple years ago. The airport wasn't testing their gas, and like mentioned, the moisture content was out of this world too. We had to start running stabilizer to help the rubber components live and keep corrosion down as well.

Plus like Shine was saying about the tanks underground.............. You'd be shocked to find out how many fuel stations don't have filters on their pumps. They don't install them to save money. Casey's Corporation was one of the worst up here.

If you guys think the ethanol thing is crap, be lucky you don't have to purchase much diesel. Most states are bio-diesel states and the states don't have to disclose the mixture in it either. Iowa is a B20 state which means you could have up to 20% bio in your fuel. Who cares right? Well bio starts to get thick at 40* and can gel at 34*. It gets worse MPG and algae and bacteria thrive in it. Just what you want in your fuel right?

And the whole crop production thing............... Iowa is a main streamer in Ethanol production. The state wasn't making enough money from the ethanol plants and was going to pull the plug on the entire operation 2 years ago. The state stepped in made some new laws and made some tax changes and the state was buying a certain percentage of the corn produced here to make fuel from. So what happened? It drove the price of corn way up which drove prices of everything else way up. People keep blaiming droughts for the beef prices beeing high. That's part of it. The other part is the winter storm last year that killed off a million cattle in the Dakotas, Nebraska, and surrounding areas. We haven't seen the full circle effect from that yet. It's coming and it isn't going away I imagine either.