Fuel stabilizer for chain saw

[sb47]

Ethanol is the biggest scam portrayed on Americans in a long time.
The idea was to supplement fuel oil to decrease foreign oil dependency.
Biggest story of the decade.

You have to use fuel to plow the field, then more fuel to fertilize it with petroleum fertilizer.
Then irrigation in the field using more fuel/electricity and depleting ground water.
After it's ready to harvest, more fuel to run combine and grain trucks.
You have to haul it to a desalinated facility for storage.
Then still yet you have to haul it again to a plant that makes bio fuel.
Then more fuel to truck it to a blending plant.
Meanwhile corn prices are going higher and "ALL" corn products get more expensive.
Now please explain to me how this saves or is cheaper then gas with no ethanol?

 

[Whitespider]

And don't forget... it requires 1½ gallons of ethanol to equal the energy content of 1 gallon gasoline.
When all is considered, it costs around 95¢ to produce a gallon of gasoline, it cost around $1.75 to produce a gallon of ethanol (that's why fossil fuels, rather than ethanol, are used to produce ethanol... and that's why ethanol increases the price of gasoline).
Again, when all is considered, it requires approximately 131,000 BTUs to produce a gallon of ethanol... a gallon of ethanol contains 77,000 BTUs... a net energy loss of 54,000 BTUs per gallon of ethanol.
The environmental system manipulated to produce corn is being rapidly degraded, corn production erodes or degrades the soil approximately 12 times faster than it can reform... ethanol produced from corn is not a "renewable" fuel.
On average, State and Federal government spends approximately $1 Billion a year subsidizing ethanol to keep the industry afloat... just in tax money alone, a $1 Billion a year net loss‼

Let us not forget humans switched from biomass to fossil fuels millennia ago because biomass was so inefficient, and required a lot of energy and space to produce... technology has not changed what was and what still is. It may be a fact that someday we'll run out'a oil, but ethanol produced from corn ain't anything close to the answer... because without the oil, there ain't no way to mass produce ethanol... using ethanol to produce ethanol is a negative sum game, it would require nearly 2 gallons of ethanol to produce 1 gallon of ethanol. Ethanol is a huge step backwards... it ain't moving forward.
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[CrufflerJJ]

But ADM (& the politicians bought & sold with fuel ethanol money) appreciates our forced use of this "green" wonder fuel.

Time to crank it up to 15%!!!

 

[melloyello]

I have 4 chainsaws, a gas trimmer, a leaf blower, log splitter, chipper, lawnmower, pressure washer, generator, etc. I keep (2) 5 gallon jugs full of ethanol free gas around. As soon as I fill those tanks back they get about 2oz each of Sta-bil. I mix 2.5 gallons of gas with one bottle of stihl synthetic mix which also has stabilizer in it. That 2.5 gallons of mix will normally last me an entire fall/winter of cutting firewood. I also make it a point to fire everything up at least once every 2 months. Maybe I go overboard on buying ethanol free fuel and using Sta-bil but I'm not having any issues with gummed up carbs either.
Some people just won't listen though. I clean multiple carbs at home on generators, chainsaws, pressure washers, etc for folks in my neighborhood every year. I also work at a Honda and Stihl dealer and clean carbs all the time. No matter how many times I tell them to do the same as I do they keep coming back every year or every 2 years.

 

[Whitespider]

Some people just won't listen though. I clean multiple carbs at home on generators, chainsaws, pressure washers, etc for folks in my neighborhood every year. I also work at a Honda and Stihl dealer and clean carbs all the time. No matter how many times I tell them to do the same as I do they keep coming back every year or every 2 years.

I have one of those neighbors... almost every spring and/or fall like clockwork he brings me one or two (along with a box of beer). He refuses to believe ethanol is the root of the problem, he believes using it is the "right" thing to do. He may have changed his mind this year though... the stuff rotted a couple pin holes right through the case of his leaf blower and he told me his generator will only run with the choke on.
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