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Old 03-22-2021, 08:54 AM   #9
rslifkin
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Originally Posted by Pete Meisinger View Post
I didn't realize that "critters" grew in gasoline.

Gas doesn't usually grow algae and such like diesel, but if it's non ethanol gas, it can collect water in the tanks just as badly as diesel with the same inside-out tank corrosion risk. And with enough water down there, I'd assume there's something that could start to grow. Ethanol gas absorbs water (provided it's not so much that the gas separates and goes bad), so the tanks stay dry. When running non-ethanol (which is most of the time these days) I make a point to throw a few bottles of dry gas (isopropyl alcohol) in the tanks periodically to soak up any stray bits of moisture to avoid them building up in the bottom of the tanks.
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