Jay Lenno had one of his old cars catch on fire from an Ethanol based fuel leak . A friend of mine in FL had one of the powerboats at his club have their fiberglass fuel tanks go to hell with the stuff too . What car was that ? Where was it leaking from ? And I don ' t know anything about boats . And from a pure Engineering standpoint , it takes more energy to make ethanol than you get from it , which is telling . If you use corn ethanol . Otherethods are much more efficient . Modern equipment build for E 85 doesn ' t have problems running E 15 , but not everything on the roads was built for Eanything , so they don ' t have things like internally coated fuel tanks to keep the oxidation problems at bay . You don ' t need those things . We have a 1949 chevy truck that just sits 99 % of the time with ethanol in the tank . No leaks . No problems . Just dead batteries and junk brakes . Nothing wrong with the fuel system and it hasn ' t been modified . Finally , I ' ve personally spent ample time personally in Missouri it ' s one of the places where one can find Ethanolfree gas pumps . golly , just why is that ? SBecause people believe big oil and their puppets despite never having had any issues and don ' t see the clear conflict of interest and like wasting their own money . Nobody I know personally gives a shit whether or not they burn gasohol or not . It ' s made no difference to anyone in blends up to E 15 . E 85 has made huge differences to people with forced induction though . They love it . Poor man ' s race fuel .