There are ways of removing the Ethanol from the gasoline, If you wanted to do this (DO NOT ATTEMPT), you would use water to sink the ethanol to the bottom of a barrel and separating it from the gasoline after draining the water off the bottom, You add a large amount of Silica "Gel" beads (you know the kind that come in Jerky bags) to absorb the water mixed in with the gas. After removing the silica beads, you have removed the ethanol and water. Better octane, better fuel economy, and a longer life for your car. The only downside is that you paid for that ethanol.
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you would use water to sink the ethanol to the bottom of a barrel and separating it from the gasoline after draining the water off the bottom,
Well that makes no sense.
One part of that blog is wrong. Removing the ethanol from gasoline will not result in "better octane".
Adding ethanol to gasoline actually raises octane, so gas blenders don't need the traditional octane boosters such as butane, heptane, and ether.
Since ethanol blended gasoline does not have the traditional octane boosters, removing the ethanol results is unusable gasoline.
I buy my booze in DE to avoid their tax and buy my gas in MD to avoid the ethanol. Ethanol is a no no for older cars and dangerous in boats with older engines.
Ethanol blended gas has less energy and provides lower mileage than "real" gas.
Ethanol is in Md. too.
Most gasoline sold in Maryland has ethanol in it. In Delaware it is mandatory to sell E-10. It is NOT mandatory to sell E-10 in Maryland or Virginia. Yes, the ethanol is a so called octane inhancer. 87 octane gasoline with the ethanol removed has maybe 84 octane.
Charlie
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