For me I have to travel over 100 miles to find the nearest ethanol free gas.
Our vehicles are all flex fuel so if they can handle E85 then they should be OK with the E10.
Whenever I go on a road trip out of the ethanol area I bring all of my empty gas cans to fill with non ethanol gas for the small engines.
If that E0 runs out, for my small engines I use a process to remove the ethanol from the gas and dispose of it.
I no longer have any mid size engines like ATVs, boats, snowmobiles.....
Many people do not understand octane.
Higher octane in an engine that is not designed for it will give noticeably LESS power output than regular gas of the correct octane rating. High performance engines all use high octane because of the way they are designed and tuned. NOT because high octane makes more power. Octane make the fuel burn SLOWER, that is why it makes less power in an engine not made for it. The higher the compression ratio and/or the more advanced the timing these moth make the fuel charge burn faster and thus need the higher octane to prevent detonation.
Most modern computer controlled cars have sensors so if you do put in high octane the computer can alter the timing and other tuning to take some advantage of it. That is why most modern cars do have more power and get better gas mileage with high octane.
I once ran an experiment with my truck, for one full year I used nothing but premium gas. I wrote down the mileage and gas put in at every fillup to be able to do the math at the end of the test. The result was a n increase of 2.8 MPG, BUT the $ per mile went up. The result was it was cheaper to run the low octane. I do still put in Premium if I will be towing just for the little extra power. I ran the same test with E85 and got way less MPG and noticeably less power. With the big hit on MPG it was more expensive to run the "cheap" E85 than it was to run regular or even premium gas. NOw this is all based on my truck, they way I use and drive it and the weather in my area, Someone else running these same tests under different conditions may get different results. That I why i ran the test foe a full year to make the conditions as average as possible for a valid comparison.
No matter how much you don't like it, or how much is spent on false advertising, you can not change the laws of physics. Ethanol has almost half of the BTUs per unit volume as gasoline. That means you need twice as much to get the same amount of work done.
OK enough learning for one day, I'll shut up now.....
