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Buy it from an airport then.
Ethanol fuel isn't FAA approved, thus cannot be sold at airports.
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Go to a Shell gas station owned by TrueNorth, and get their 93 octane. I've tested it myself using a cylinder jar and water.
Only their 93 octane is ethanol free, other grades are not.
Not true.
Depends on where they source it for the day.
I am -extremely- familiar with their operations.
I don't care who or where it's from. I only put the e-free stuff in my generator and mower after testing it myself. No one is honest in business anymore, so I'm surely not going to blindly take their word for it, even if it's at a marina.
Buy it from an airport then.
Ethanol fuel isn't FAA approved, thus cannot be sold at airports.
The airport where I buy my avgas sells ethanol free unleaded, so I started filling a couple of jerry cans when I went. I have an older garden tractor with a cast iron kohler on it that I bought used in '92. It just runs and runs. I started running the e-free in it, and after a couple of tank-fulls, it started acting funny. It completely quit while it was hot a couple of times, and wouldn't start until it cooled off. I thought that maybe a valve was sticking or something, and that it was just finally time to rebuild it. I was just a bit suspicious about the switch to the airport gas. This was in August, and I was moving in with my daughter while my new house is being built, so I wasn't going to need it for a while. I just parked it do deal with later. A couple of weeks ago, I used my new generator for the first time. I let it run all night to keep the sump pump going in my new basement, because they didn't have the temp pole connected yet. I started it again the next evening, and noticed it would sputter a bit when the pump came on. I came back to check the next morning, and it had only run for a little while. On about the sixth or seventh gallon of gas, total, it had quit completely, and would not start.
I noticed that the spark screen on the exhaust was black and sooty, so I pulled the spark plug. It was completely fouled with carbon. I cleaned it up, and the thing runs like new again. I checked the mixture, and it was about as lean as it would run. (In fact, the first day, I had started it at about 3pm. The workers that showed up the next morning said it was still running. I was amazed that it ran so long on less than a tank of gas.)
I am inclined to attribute the fouling to the lack of additives in the gas. I'm going to pull the plug on the tractor this week, and I expect to find the same thing. I'm not going to waste the extra money on it any more. I use good jerry cans for my gas to keep it dry, and I'll put stabilizer in it. For me, that's the best solution. YMMV