You're mistaken on the residue. That's gasoline. All gasoline leaves that residue; it's those sediments and heavy volatiles I mentioned, when the lighter fraction evaporates it leaves them behind.
Ethanol evaporates with no residue. There is only one chemical in ethanol: ethanol. There are anywhere from 150-500+ chemicals in "gasoline," varying in proportions from country to country, by region, state, and sometimes even municipality or station. Some of these compounds aren't even flammable, and a great many of them aren't even deliberately added and have no real value as motor fuel. Infrequently used engines run on any fuel without proper draining, stabilization and preparation will suffer the same build up and clogging fates. People have been fighting this fight since before ethanol was even considered as an additive for fuels. As for your mileage, the only way to validate your results would be for someone to fill your tank for you, NOT tell you what it is, and run that way for an extended time. Only then could you make a meaningful comparison of results, because it would eliminate your subconscious' affect on your results. These sorts of tests performed by people far better funded and equipped than any of us have confirmed that there is no statistically significant fuel economy variation between E10 and E00 fuel in motor vehicles. The plural of "anecdote" is not "data." -Kurt On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Tommy Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > Say what you will, but I get 120-125 miles per tank and fill up with 2.7 > gallons. After one tank of ethanol-free gas, I filled up at 147 miles with > 2.7 gallons. Granted, only one tank, but I am trying the next tank to see. > > And I have spent more than I care to think on my boats and the problems > that ethanol creates. In frequently used applications, cars, motorcycles, > etc it doesn't matter, but when it sits, the ethanol evaporates and leaves > gummy crap on any moving parts. Float valves stick, jets clog. Pain in > the butt. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
