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Notice she said she is in a small town with a couple of gas stations...In larger towns or cities, the pumps are always individual for what your pumping, she is obviously talking about small town gas stations that actually share a pump wand with varying grades of gasoline because they havent updated their systems in many years because it is just not cost effective for them to do so or lack state gov.t inspections on a periodic basis that would discover and then have them correct this.

You do not find this happening in major towns or cities and especially where the laws require separate wands for each grade so that this just does not happen unless your living in Mayberry along with Sheriff Taylor and Barney Fife, Aunt Bea, and Opie...lol..

There are some very small little hamlets in many states where this can happen, again because they are off the beaten track, they don't get inspected anywhere near as often by appropriate state authorities etc. etc.

Plus the fact that this gal from youtube demonstrates that she cannot even operate a rather simple gas can makes me wonder how she can even "turn a wrench", let alone be an "authority" on much else related to our little 2 strokers...lol.

My gas station here in a city of only 32,000 people that is the only one with Ethanol-Free gas only uses dedicated pumps for all of it's different grades of gasoline, so for me anyways, this is a non-issue...Besides, there are things like always having to clean our carburetors or replace crank seals that would give the game away immediately for those of us who know full well the effects of ethanol on 2 strokes motors.

Just ask @Sidewinder Jerry who lives in a very small town of only around 5,000 people, he does not seem to have this problem whatsoever at his local gas station where he gets his ethanol free, and he might even know "Aunt Bea" too...lol.

I guess these youtubers always need to make a major "issue" out of something that is only an isolated issue for very few people in small little towns, compared to the great many of us that do not have an issue with this.
 

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Every pump I go to has one handle and usually 3 buttons to pick what grade you want. You pick up the nozzle and then press the button for which grade you want. I don't know any gas stations around here that have grade specific pumps
 

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Every pump I go to has one handle and usually 3 buttons to pick what grade you want. You pick up the nozzle and then press the button for which grade you want. I don't know any gas stations around here that have grade specific pumps
Sounds like "small town" Pennsylvania to me...lol.

If thats how your pumps are, then this could be an issue for your area then.
 

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Notice she said she is in a small town with a couple of gas stations...In larger towns or cities, the pumps are always individual for what your pumping, she is obviously talking about small town gas stations that actually share a pump wand with varying grades of gasoline because they havent updated their systems in many years because it is just not cost effective for them to do so or lack state gov.t inspections on a periodic basis that would discover and then have them correct this.

You do not find this happening in major towns or cities and especially where the laws require separate wands for each grade so that this just does not happen unless your living in Mayberry along with Sheriff Taylor and Barney Fife, Aunt Bea, and Opie...lol..

There are some very small little hamlets in many states where this can happen, again because they are off the beaten track, they don't get inspected anywhere near as often by appropriate state authorities etc. etc.

Plus the fact that this gal from youtube demonstrates that she cannot even operate a rather simple gas can makes me wonder how she can even "turn a wrench", let alone be an "authority" on much else related to our little 2 strokers...lol.

My gas station here in a city of only 32,000 people that is the only one with Ethanol-Free gas only uses dedicated pumps for all of it's different grades of gasoline, so for me anyways, this is a non-issue...Besides, there are things like always having to clean our carburetors or replace crank seals that would give the game away immediately for those of us who know full well the effects of ethanol on 2 strokes motors.

Just ask @Sidewinder Jerry who lives in a very small town of only around 5,000 people, he does not seem to have this problem whatsoever at his local gas station where he gets his ethanol free, and he might even know "Aunt Bea" too...lol.

I guess these youtubers always need to make a major "issue" out of something that is only an isolated issue for very few people in small little towns, compared to the great many of us that do not have an issue with this.
In my town the E-free is a pump by itself. However, many of the older E-pumps have a shared hose between the 3 octane grades.
 

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Notice she said she is in a small town with a couple of gas stations...In larger towns or cities, the pumps are always individual for what your pumping, she is obviously talking about small town gas stations that actually share a pump wand with varying grades of gasoline because they havent updated their systems in many years because it is just not cost effective for them to do so or lack state gov.t inspections on a periodic basis that would discover and then have them correct this.

You do not find this happening in major towns or cities and especially where the laws require separate wands for each grade so that this just does not happen unless your living in Mayberry along with Sheriff Taylor and Barney Fife, Aunt Bea, and Opie...lol..

There are some very small little hamlets in many states where this can happen, again because they are off the beaten track, they don't get inspected anywhere near as often by appropriate state authorities etc. etc.

Plus the fact that this gal from youtube demonstrates that she cannot even operate a rather simple gas can makes me wonder how she can even "turn a wrench", let alone be an "authority" on much else related to our little 2 strokers...lol.

My gas station here in a city of only 32,000 people that is the only one with Ethanol-Free gas only uses dedicated pumps for all of it's different grades of gasoline, so for me anyways, this is a non-issue...Besides, there are things like always having to clean our carburetors or replace crank seals that would give the game away immediately for those of us who know full well the effects of ethanol on 2 strokes motors.

Just ask @Sidewinder Jerry who lives in a very small town of only around 5,000 people, he does not seem to have this problem whatsoever at his local gas station where he gets his ethanol free, and he might even know "Aunt Bea" too...lol.

I guess these youtubers always need to make a major "issue" out of something that is only an isolated issue for very few people in small little towns, compared to the great many of us that do not have an issue with this.
Here each pump has 4 choices, 3 different grades and diesel. Of course the diesel nozzle is larger thank the LORD. Most fuel stations.
 
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