My father-in-law just introduced me to a site where you can see locations of gas pumps in the U.S. that provide ethanol free gas. After taking a look around my area, I found that there is a station close by that provides ethanol free, however it is 90 octane. My question is whether or not it is wort…

Measure your gas mileage over the course of two tanks of 87 then two tanks of 90. Compare the difference in mileage to the difference in cost. My guess is that it won’t make much of a difference. A 2003 car will run fine on both fuels.

I don’t think running 90 octane is going to make any difference either. For what it’s worth, 91 octane is recommended for my Lincolns and I’ve run 87 for going on 15 years and hundreds of thousands of miles with not even a hint of a problem. The mileage remains the same no matter the octane and act…

As for damage, a higher octane than required will not cause any damage. As for the cost, you should see slightly better fuel economy with E0 versus E10, as gasoline has more energy content than alcohol. However, this may not be enough to make up for the price difference. What’s the price of each …

not sure of the price difference, I’m going by it this weekend so I’ll check and maybe fill up. Right now I can say that on e10 87 octane right now I average about 375 miles before my next fill.

If you want to compare you’ll need to carefully track miles and gallons over a large number of tanks because the difference will be quite small.

The 90 octane without the ethanol…is that marine gas?

It’s probably Unleaded Premium, normally 92 or 93 octane, without the ethanol, which drops it’s octane to 90…If the people selling this removed the ethanol from their Regular Unleaded, the octane would drop to 85 and they could not sell it…One of the properties of ethanol, it boosts octane…To pay ex…

Theh reason I asked if it was marine gas is that in some states (and it varies) gas is available for off-road use (farming and/or marine use) that has no ethanol…but because it’s exempt from some gas taxes it’s illegal to use in cars.

I have all kinds of small engine equipment…2-stroke and 4-stroke. It all runs fine on whatever comes out of my local gas-stations pump…Honda, Briggs, Johnson, Poulan, Tecumseh, never had a problem…

90 octane ethanol free VS regular 87 octane

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Triedaq June 26, 2013, 2:10am 10

I wish I could purchase 90 octane gasoline without ethanol at the pump. My vehicles are fine with 87 octane with 10% ethanol, but not my 2 stroke rototiller. I just spent $4.80 for about a liter of premixed 90 octane fuel that contains no ethanol at a farm store for my rototiller.

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