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zzzona · 05-20-2008, 09:39 PM

My brother works in the petroleum industry and he said some stations are having problems with ethanol. Seems as though ethanol is a solvent, and when stations convert over to using ethanol it can clean any residue built up on the walls of the fuel tanks, and it ends up in the fuel. Also ethanol is what helps give the fuel its octain rating. You can start out with gas that has an 82 octain rating and with the proper mix of ethanol it bumps it up to 87 or higher. The problem is if that mixture gets messed up you may not be getting 93 octain.
Unless they do an about face eventually every gas station in Florida will be ethanol based..

05-20-2008, 09:39 PM	#3
zzzona Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Safety Harbor Posts: 682 Name :	My brother works in the petroleum industry and he said some stations are having problems with ethanol. Seems as though ethanol is a solvent, and when stations convert over to using ethanol it can clean any residue built up on the walls of the fuel tanks, and it ends up in the fuel. Also ethanol is what helps give the fuel its octain rating. You can start out with gas that has an 82 octain rating and with the proper mix of ethanol it bumps it up to 87 or higher. The problem is if that mixture gets messed up you may not be getting 93 octain. Unless they do an about face eventually every gas station in Florida will be ethanol based.. Last edited by zzzona; 05-21-2008 at 07:25 AM.