On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:41:39 -0700, Al
wrote:

This is a nationwide situation. Not just in a few states. You may not
find non-ethanol autogas at your usual outlet.

The local airport stocks mogas without additives, which is a huge boon
to people like me who don't want to put the alky-diluted stuff in our
small engines (snowblower, lawnmower, chainsaw) where it can literally
gum the works. It was four dollars a gallon last time I brought the
stuff home, but I don't use that many gallons in a year.

Happily for us, you can't transport alky-gas over long distances in
pipelines or on tankers, so the stuff is mixed at the port of entry,
which for us is Portland ME, sixty miles north. When the airport owner
needs to fill the mogas main supply, he orders us a truckload of the
unadulterated stuff from the terminal.

This began here four or five years ago as a way of getting mogas
without MBTE in it. Though not as objectional as alcohol, the purists
didn't want to put it in their airplane tanks.


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