E15

[jasonjm]

Saw this news: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/12/1092...t-biden-will-allow-e15-gas-to-be-sold-this-su

Thoughts?

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[wildbilly32]

E15 can be bad for a fuel injected car...injectors don't like it so much.

 

[sLing]

E15 can be bad for a fuel injected car...injectors don't like it so much.

Don't people already run ~E40 with stock injectors?

 

[wildbilly32]

I have no idea. I just know from other cars I own/owned that alcohol shortens the life of injectors. At least cars with EFI maybe DFI is different. I try to buy the least amount of alcohol in gasoline I can find for all my cars. Already had to have an engine rebuilt where a large contributing factor was leaky injectors.

 

[360glitch]

This headline is not particularly significant. They are allowing E15 to continue to be sold via existing E15 pumps. No change for the rest of us.

 

[wildbilly32]

A while back I wrote Shell USA asking about whether their Shell V-Power Nitro + contained ethanol because it wasn't marked on the pump. Here is the response I got back:

You should look for a label on the dispenser indicating ethanol content. All gasoline stations should post a label on the dispenser advising if the gasoline containers ethanol and the maximum amount (depending on State laws, which may or may not make this labeling mandatory for 10 % or less ethanol content. Virtually, all Shell gasoline products, including Shell V-Power NiTRO + will contain 10% ethanol.

 

[ValkenDnB]

I’m curious if they will actually take the time to put the E15 label on said participating gas stations. As someone who pumps 91 + 1 gallon of e85 for tsp stage 1+ I would be way over the stock fuel system limitation if they didn’t put the E15 label. Might switch to TSP stage 1 just for safety

 

[wildbilly32]

In my state there is a law that says any gasoline sold that is between 11 and 15 % ethanol it has to be labeled as E15 at the pump...for what ever that's worth.

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