Local gas station offers a 7% ethanol blend 89 Octane for same price as 87 octane regular gas.

Is it ok to use ethanol in the F150, and if not why not?

 

I would buy the 87 octane IF there is no ethanol in it.The only gas available in my area is 10% ethanol.

 

It is fine to use 7% ethanol blend in your truck. I don't use the blend if I can help it because I have noticed a drop in mpg and slight power loss. My area is also 10% blend.

 

I dont have a choice either. 10% or nothing. Dont like using it in my 150 Evinrude either. My brother back in the Midwest drives extra miles to go to the ONE station that sells real gas. I would too.

 

Go ahead and use it if you don't mind a 7-10% drop in your mpg. Ethanol blend may be the grandest farce ever foisted on the American public. I wish I could buy 87 octane for the same price as 10%. I pay ten cents a gallon more for 87, but it ends up being cheaper in the long run.

 

Ethanol means lower "bad" emissions. However it also means lower mpg.

 

I'd like to know just how ethanol lowers bad emissions. If I buy 10 percent ethanol blend and get 10 percent lower mileage, I just burned the same amount of gasoline to go 90 percent of the distance. Same amount of gasoline = same amount of emission...plus 10 percent "good" emissions, I suppose.

The "cleaner" fuel garbage is the farce I was alluding to. Add to that the tax dollars used to subsidize the ethanol industry, which uses energy produced using electricity generated by coal-fired generators, and you have an even greater rip-off of the public in the name of clean energy. We are then forced by the government to use this crap. So far, I can still find 87 octane in Iowa, but there have been rumblings in our legislature about mandatory 10 percent.

I'd support it if it worked, but it doesn't. I won't use it as long as I can find real gasoline.

 

Well put 30coupe.

I tested the mpg on a recent trip to my farm in Texas. (755 miles each way) On the way there I burned gasoline and got 17.4 mpg. On the way home I burned 10% blend and got 13.5 mpg. Same driving conditions - 2,000 foot increase in elevation on the way home. That is a 22% decrease in fuel mileage. What a ripoff.

 

sounds like the general consensus us bad news, so planning to stick to real gas as long as it is avail.
Thanks for the comments...live long & prosper.

 

I read that ethanol absorbs water and or moisture in the air also which can lower the octane rating which can cause your engine to knock.

Not to mention more deposits and like they all said lower milage and not to mention the rotten egg smell, I don't even run that ethanol crap in my beaters anymore. I put 20,000 miles on my truck this last year and used high octane (89 or higher without ethanol) or 87 without it. I figured since the previous owner probably only put city miles on it and it never touched gravel roads he probably just cruised so i figured I'd run a small amount of seafoam through it and well I didn't even get a white puff which meant there was no carbon.

I did this to another vehicle I had (in which I had replaced the head gasket on and soaked the head in seafoam to remove all the carbon therefore it was clean) and I basically put the same milage on it and almost all highway also except it was the cheap 87 or 89 10% ethanol that I ran through it and the dam thing acted like it was never going to stop smoking I almost thought I scored a piston or somethin it was so bad. Soo junk fuel = junk buildup and bad fuel milage good fuel = cleaner emissions and almost no junk buildup! Just my 2cents

 

Had a volvo hire car in Sweden last summer (1.6l) which ran on ethanol, damn thing used more fuel than my Roush F150! I swear it had a hole in the tank. The only way to drive it was with the loud (lol) pedal welded to the floor! Real gas all the way.

 

This is off topic but the ethanol blend is horrible for small engines and boat motors too. it dries the rings out and has been known to burn the 6th cylinder out on boat motors, from all the water that it collects.

 

Add to the fact that it takes 9 gals of reg gas to produce 10 gals of ethonal, and you really have a boondoggle. Wish someone had a map of all stations around the country that you could just buy plain gas. I know there are a few places. But if you live in a highly populated area/city, you prob wont find any.

 

Ethanol-free gas stations in the U.S. and Canada
It lists state by state. sort of depressing to see so few real gas stations left
Tom

 

Wow, I cant believe everyone and thinking ethanol is some kind of conspiracy. I think i'm gonna grab my tin foil hat and body suit and head for the bomb shelter.