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Originally Posted by Kestas
I thought the manufacturers test their fuel components for compatibility with ethanol before production. They did at Chrysler when I worked there in the early 80s. This shouldn't be a surprise to the manufacturers that their components would contact ethanol during service. This has been known since at least 1982. I'm curious to what's going on.
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Well we used to use %10 MTBE as the additive to gas, that phased out a few months ago. Now we use %10 Ethanol in all blends to replace the MTBE as the Oxygenate. 24 years ago there were not too many stations using an Ethanol Blend, now every station in the USA that is in an area that MTBE was required now pumps E10 gas basically. Although not all are labeled as such. The %10 Ethanol blend gas produces less energy than the MTBE blend as well, which means you will get less gas mileage and a small drop in performance from it compared to MTBE Blends of the past. Not to mention that Ethanol absorbs water as well so that just adds to the issue if water it introduced.
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