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Unread 07-05-2016, 10:14 PM
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I almost burned up my Yamaha due to Ethanol. It ate up my fuel lines from the inside and trash from that leaned out the bottom 2 cylinders. Luckily I caught it in time. One thing I will say though is the boat was much more fuel efficient with ethanol vs non ethanol.
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But....but....How will the big giant farming conglomerates make enough money to survive without us buying ethanol and them getting subsidies from our taxes?

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I haven't even considered this. I have an old, carburated 2-stroke (150 Black Max)... How can I tell if I'm putting harmful fuel in her when I gas up? What additives should I consider to help curb damage? I currently use Sta-bil and Sea Foam on every fill.

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I haven't even considered this. I have an old, carburated 2-stroke (150 Black Max)... How can I tell if I'm putting harmful fuel in her when I gas up? What additives should I consider to help curb damage? I currently use Sta-bil and Sea Foam on every fill.

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Both of those additives are an alchol based additive making erhanol problems worse imo. I used star tron in mine, and sea foam was a shock only type of treatment. I now use ethanol free, and no more worries.
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But....but....How will the big giant farming conglomerates make enough money to survive without us buying ethanol and them getting subsidies from our taxes?

Couldn't of said it better myself. i remember watching some of the original ads for it and it had some old timely, homegrown farmer saying how great it was for 'Merica. Yea... Horse****. Just billionaires making more billions.

Fortunately we have 2 close by stations that sell it at a pretty good price. Usually $.40-.50 more /gal. then ethanol.
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