Alan, Non-ethanol fuel is "legal" everywhere. However, the federal EPA has decided that we all need to burn E-10 (10% ethanol/gasoline mix) ethanol to save the environment. That's about to go to E-15, unless congress changes it. In their typical manner of seriously underperforming analytics, they decided if they fixed the over-the-road user (cars, trucks, construction, etc), that would do it. Boats... No impact there... Here's what I understand the issue to be. Non-ethanol fuel is legal to retail for specialty use, like boats. It's produced by, and available from, the refineries. Thus, it's always available to the pipeline operators and bulk fuel warehousers and distributors. However, the market legal end user market is very small by comparison to the overall fuel market, so many of the secondary distributors can not handle it efficiently, and many decide not to handle it at all. It takes up too large a percentage of their equipment and labor, for minimal return. That effectively shuts out some retailers from access, because it's just too expensive to get small loads delivered many miles away, and by a non-local franchise distributor, at that. It's also the relatively less efficient distribution system that makes marine fuels more expensive. Someone (that's us, of course) has to pay for the vertical inefficiencies all along the system. And then there's the retailer. He gets a much higher markup on fuels sold at a dock than a retailer gets on automotive fuels. Many get more than $.50/gallon of the $4.25 price. But, hey, it's all OK. ALL BOATERS ARE RICH, AREN'T THEY? Jim Peg and Jim Healy aboard Sanctuary Currently at Rock Creek, Pasadena, MD Monk 36 Hull #132 MMSI #367042570 AGLCA #3767 MTOA #3436