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The old Nitro's have a reputation as being a cheap made mass produced boat. Save your money and get a good boat. (Ranger Z) You'll be a lot happier. ;D

Not at todays levels. Ethanol has been used as the oxygenate of choice for YEARS. MTBE has been banned in Illinois since 2001 and it's replacement was ethanol so ethanol has been used as the oxygenate in 100% of your gas purchased at regular stations since AT LEAST then. That's a long time to have your check engine lights on.

With all of the following benefits of e10, I just can't wait for E15 to be mandated. Both of our vehicle check engine lights stay on constantly. The boat doesn't have as much power, mileage is terrible, and lawn mowers won't start. generator won't start, have to add costly additives, drives up food prices, cost $1 to produce 70 cents worth of energy, can't let fuel sit for more than 30 days, injects a lot of water directly into your outboard motor, etc. All of this on (supposedly) E10.

We are dependent on foreign oil because we will not drill our own or build refineries. We have enough oil alone to last over 600 years. Ethanol is not the answer.

If they mandate ethanol up to 15% in our fuel. Buy new motors designed for it? Friend of mine is an outboard mechanic. He says that it will be very hard on current outboards, and horrible for older motors. They (the marina were he works) has already had 2 fires due to ethanol eating customers gas lines over the winter. Please read the following article; There will be a day in the not to near future where ethanol will be in your marina's gasoline. If have read your owner's manual you know that is not a good thing. While most outboard engines will operate with up to 10 percent ethanol (E-10) anything over that is bad news. How are we going to be able to cope with the new alcohol fuels? Here are a few of the problems with boating and alcohol. Alcohol is a great solvent. So good a solvent that it can clean out an older boats fuel system and deposit all the old crud in the engine. This can lead to not only poor performance. It can kill the engine. The higher the alcohol content is in the fuel mixture, the greater the potential for major damage. While E-10 is allowable E15 fuels and fuels with higher ethanol concentrations can start causing problems.. Alcohol and water mix. With gasoline any water the gets into your fuel settles to the bottom of the tank. If enough water gets in to the tank ,a fuel water separator normally stops everything before there is too much damage. With alcohol, the water mixes with the alcohol and runs right past the fuel separator. If enough water mixes with the alcohol, the engine will be damaged while running. In low concentrations, the engine still runs, but once the engine is shut off the water in the fuel system starts corroding important parts. An engine that sets idle for an extended period can have a great deal of rust build-up on the cylinder walls, piston rings and other steel components. Not a good thing if you want to go fishing. Alcohol is less powerful that gasoline. At very high alcohol fuel concentrations like E85 ethanol fuel, more fuel is required for proper performance. With direct injection engines, reprogramming the fuel flow rates will be required to compensate. With carborated engines, the jets will have to be larger. Cold starts will be very difficult for two-cycle engines requiring starting fluid or alternate start-up fuels. This means your miles per gallon will go down and fuel costs up. Finally alcohol is corrosive to many rubber and synthetic materials used in boat and engine fuel systems. New materials rated for very high ethanol concentrations will have to be installed in older boats and engines. While this is the least of your worries now, a leaking fuel line in your bilge will not be. The conversion to ethanol in the automotive industry will be a lot smoother than in the boating industry. Boat owners and manufactures need to be prepared for some very tough decisions in the not so distant future. All boat owners need to be aware of the potential problems that lie ahead. These issues have been mentioned before. The reason for this is they have not been satisfactorily addressed.

50% income tax increase. Have to pay to enter our state parks.Have to pay to launch. $1 a pack tax on cigs. Big tax increase on beer. Sales tax, property tax, 44% increase in the gasoline tax . Corporate tax increase, all of this on top of some of the highest taxes in the nation already. We get absolutely nothing in return for these outrages taxes. Everything here is banned.If it is not banned it is taxed. I am really worried that Obama will do this to the whole nation.

Larry Nixon!!

I believe that someone (Johnny Morris BPS) or something (PAA) will soon own BASS. I could be totally off base, but things are not looking good. To put a major Elite tournament on top of the FLW championship shows me that someone at BASS is out of touch.