Any benefits of using Ethanol Free fuel?

[FocusMike]

Curious if there's any benefits of using Ethanol Free fuel?

 

[vixenlotus]

you are lucky to have a choice. Ethanol should stay out of gas. Where i live ethanol free gas is very hard to find and very expensive (think $9/g). Ethanol is particularly bad for vintage cars where the rubber is not made to take it. At the end of the driving season i alway fill up with Ethanol free gas. in fact you can download a free App called pure gas. It gives you the location of the closest place that sells it.

 

[jmrtsus]

93 Octane non ethanol is available here and all I use when at home. Mileage is about 10% better and my MP-215 runs best on it. On the hwy traveling I am stuck with ethanol. Cost difference is NOT made up with the increased mileage so no economical advantage to it.

 

[dmb]

Curious if there's any benefits of using Ethanol Free fuel?

$1.85 a gallon? we are so screwed in Cali.

 

[FocusMike]

$1.85 a gallon? we are so screwed in Cali.

Yeah we're very lucky here in TX

 

[dmb]

ya, we got 10 refinery's all less than 10 miles of each other and we pay $3+ 6 months ago it was $4+for the cheep stuff. their is a Cracker unit less than 100 yards from my work. I swear I'm in a sea of hydrocarbons every day for the last 45 years. fuck me i'm afraid clean air will set me off and i'll die in 2 months like my friend did. better get my car back together so i can enjoy it

 

[Butterybunz]

Non-ethanol gas is more prone to knock and should really only be used for storing your car for long periods of time.

 

[Peter H]

$1.85 a gallon? we are so screwed in Cali.

...and in Oregon!

 

[jmrtsus]

Non-ethanol gas is more prone to knock and should really only be used for storing your car for long periods of time.

Why would that be?