I'm not going to comment on the politics on this one last time I said anything I got a rude surprise..
Technically either ethonal or methonal (more so) attacks the typical pot metals used in earlier carb's and fuel systems. Hard anodize will help for a while but eventually the metal disolves...
Last summer I got some info regarding CARB that I was asked not to discuss fully - in nutshell they have a budget to find a solution to this problem - but its does not involve keeping carb's on vehicles.....
Personally I'd be quite happy if I could buy E85 locally - it would make a good performance fuel - but with the oil industry owning the province here its not likely to happen any time soon. Last time I filled up here 87 octane was $0.98 per liter ($3.70/US gal.).
