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Ethanol-Free Gas Outlets Growing Daily
By Mr Ethanol | July 1, 2008
Statesman Journal:
For boat owners and operators of a variety of small engines that are bucking and choking on ethanol-blended gasoline, help is on the way.
A list of Oregon dealers who are pumping regular gas, with no ethanol added, is growing daily on the Web site of the Oregon State Marine Board.
“I’m hoping it’s a resource that will help boaters know where they can go, and I’m hoping that aviators and other folks will take advantage of these locations as well,” said Ashley Massey, public affairs specialist for the marine board.
When boaters headed for the water en masse during Memorial Day weekend and discovered that their inboards, outboards and jet engines weren’t operating normally on ethanol-blended gasoline, they flooded the marine board with telephone calls.
“What we did is send out a questionnaire to all our known marine filling stations,” Massey said. “It’s great how they’ve replied back.
I’m usually getting new information daily. It’s a work in progress, and hopefully we’re getting everyone talking together.”
And there’s plenty for everyone, from boaters to woodcutters, to talk about.
The Oregon Legislature mandated in its last session that all gasoline for on-highway automobiles contain at least 10 percent ethanol by the end of the year, hence the supply of gasoline coming to Oregon from refineries has become almost entirely blended gas.
Even though boats, airplanes, race cars, all-terrain vehicles, antique cars and small engines such as chainsaws and weedeaters are legally exempt from ethanol gas, operators have had a difficult time finding a supply of regular, and in some cases have been slow to figure out why their engines have quit running. Read on.
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