the only thing i have had trouble with is my 2 stroke motors my weed eater locked up and my x father in law had a weed eater lock up and a chainsaw. my father also had a weed eater lock up. they say it has to do with the oil not mixing with the ethanol. the ethanol settles in the bottom sending it into your motor without oil leading to a locked up motor. but i havent heard of anything so far about 4 strokes but im sure it cant be good for them. thats why they are making flex motors now right?

Ethanol draws moisture like a female dog. Certain death eventualy on two strokes. Seperates the oil from the gas. The oil floats to the TOP, not the bottom. And if it sets very long you end up with water UNDER the gas. Gels carbs like mad, i hate the stuff, wont use it if i can help it. Thing is stations dont have to list it as ethanol UNLESS it accounts for more then 10-15% of the gas. Most vehicles made before 97 wont last long on even 10% ethanol

Cost me 300 bucks on a log splitter replace the whole moter last fall. Cost me a good chainsaw as well. Local repair shop showed me half a dozen he had to work on because of the stuff. Adding seafoam WILL help. Most additives wont help as their primarily kersene.
I wont run it if theres any other way around it.

Top it all off its one of the reasons your groceries are going up as well. Ethanol is a BAD Joke but noboides laughing except the guys getting rich off the fools idea.

The accelerator pump diaphragm on the Kawasaki W 650 died sitting in it. Now, when its parked, I drain the bowl on that carb. That thing is about the size of a quarter & costs about 60 dollars..
Ethanol in gas is just a bad idea. the whole program was a bad idea..
May Al Gore burn in hell,

Maybe that's their way to get you to give up on combustion engine powered vehicles and get you to buy electric powered vehicles. An evil plan to let the combustion engines die out.

You'll have to explain to me what Al Gore has to do with Republican farmers and their state and federal legislators pushing ethanol to get corn prices higher and develop ethanol plants, despite the fact it takes gallons of water, diesel and gasoline to produce and deliver a gallon of subsidized fuel.  Check the states producing ethanol and see how they voted the last few elections.
One problem with old engines is ethanol eats the rubber in gaskets, carbs, fuel pumps, and fuel lines, plus fuel separation when fuel containing ethanol sits.  Yamaha made it plain that my new outboard will not be under warranty if I use fuel with any more than 10% ethanol, and they would prefer none at all.  
In WY, NE, and SD fuel with ethanol is said at various pumps to be "enriched", despite the fuel producing less power and only the producers and distributors getting "enriched".

This dude on thumpertalk thinks ethanol caused his carb to corrode:


http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=966068

Marine grade sta-bil is supposed to prevent this sort of thing when running gasohol..

Routy, this is not a challenge to a shouting match, but in you I see someone who marches to the beat of a different drummer. I see that, because I do, too. The evidence against Ethanol is overwhelming. Look inside your lawnmower gas tank or any fittings gasohol runs through. We don't need a congressional hearing "complete with 8x10 glossies with circles and arrows on the back explaining each." (Anybody catch that?) Call your local power company boys--not the office--the ones who work on the right-of-way. Call anybody you know who owns a lawn service. Just ask them. You will get an ear full. I can be wrong at any time, but I hate explaining things that I settled years ago by plain old anectdotal evidence. Again, not trying to be mean, but I am giving you my answer. No Ethanol when I can find gas without it.