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What Safety Equipment Does the U.S. Coast Guard Require on Your Boat?
You push off from the dock on a clear Saturday morning, the cooler is loaded, the kids have their snacks, and the engine fires on the first try. Then...
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5 Things We Do to Destroy Our Engines and How to Remedy Our Errors
An overheated engine fails fast. Coolant boils, gaskets blow, blocks crack — the damage is loud, immediate, and obvious. But the slower kinds of...
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Fuel Additives: What Works, What Doesn't, and How to Know the Difference
You've been putting the same grade of gas in your car for years, doing everything the manual says, and something still feels off. The engine doesn't...
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Using a Fuel Additive to revive Old Gas
All petroleum fuels have a limited storage life. Over time, their quality will degrade and change ("break down") primarily because of chemical...
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The Outlook for the 2024 Summer Driving Season
Memorial Day is at the end of the month and, with it comes the start of the unofficial Summer Driving Season. Of this, two things are true every...
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More E15 Coming In Summer 2024
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this, but in April, news broke that the EPA is planning to temporarily expand the sales of greater-than-10%...
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It's Here: More E15 In Our Gasoline
This past year (past two years, really) has been kind of rough on the gasoline budgets of American families, as supply fluctuations and certain world...
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Will Biden's Lifting Of The 15% Ban lower gas prices?
What does President Biden’s recent authorization of 15% ethanol in the summertime mean? It’s been a while since we’ve written about ethanol issues,...
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President Trump: New Steps Towards An E15 Future
It’s the first half of October, we’ve just gotten past the contentious confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and the...
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Is ethanol-free gas bad for your car?
This seems like a rather strange question. Is ethanol-free gas bad for your car? Isn’t that the same gas we all used before they started putting...