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Originally Posted by ishoot308
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I believe Stabil has reformulated their "red" stabilizer so it is alcohol free now. Not 100% sure so check the label. There is no reason the blue marine formulation can't be used in all power equipment that takes gas, that's what I do.
Dan
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Dan-
I just went out into the garage and took a look at a bottle of that stuff I had kicking around. It's about 2 years old. It does claim to be re-formulated for ethanol laced gasoline, but doesn't give a list of ingredients, probably because it's not supposed to be a consumable item
so no FDA mandates to tell you what's in it.
I've heard and read to stay away from that stuff (the red version), so I've pretty much swapped over to using Star Tron exclusively since it's good to go for everything and is a stabilizer agent as well. Matter of fact I was turned onto that stuff when I had concerns of using dry gas in the sleds during the winter to prevent line freezing. The marine formulated Stabil I know is considerably more expensive than the red stuff, what the exact differences are is a bit of a mystery. I'd like to think that it goes beyond brilliant marketing and a different color dye. Interestingly enough the Star Tron stuff comes made one way, but it too is not cheap comparatively speaking.
Bottom line I agree, ethanol is bad stuff, but until such time it's eradicated from the gas we buy, got to deal with trying to undo the negative affects.