Date:         Thu, 5 Sep 2013 23:04:41 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Ethanol free gas
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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Where I buy it regularly, it runs about 6-10 cents higher per gallon than the alcoholic gasoline.  In fact, the place I buy ethanol free fuel most often is just a few blocks from the house, and there is a Seven Eleven across the street that sells alcoholic fuel.  They generally run 6 cents apart.

Some places one can't get the good stuff.  Most of Texas is one such place.  On the road, I don't go out of my way, but if ethanol free is readily available, I get it.

mcneely

---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>   I noticed the station nearby that sells it, they are charging more than a
> dollar a gallon more for it than even high test blend.   I think it has
> something to do  with our location, on the Columbia River Gorge, where
> Harleys from the cities across the mountains often cruise, by the
> thousands,  on weekends.  They have to use the highest possible octane gas,
> I guess, due to being air cooled still and quite high in compression ratio
> despite making not too much HP.......I get a kick out of pulling into a
> station near a bunch of them on my Honda sport bike and filling it with
> regular and watching them scratch heads....they don't usually get it...They
> can really plug up a gas station when a dozen or more pull in and get
> topped up, each rider often paying seperatly and being somewhat awkward
> moving their large heavy bikes around in close quarters...
>
>   My Inline VW motor does have higher performance with the Good
> Stuff...it's compression ratio, slightly improved camshaft grind and tuned
> exhaust respond well to real gas without ethanol.  Mileage is 2-3mpg +
> also...but that doesn't pencil out as a saving to use it at over $1.00 more
> per gallon...does it?

--
David McNeely