Gypsy the dog gives her approval to owner Dean Walker of Gaston County of a July cruise on Charlotte’s Mountain Island Lake in Walker’s four-month-old bass boat. Jack Horan Does your boat motor have a ...

Dear Car Fix: My engine has some issues and the dealer told me I had bought bad gas. What is the real story? My friends told me it really was the ethanol in the gas. Can you explain it all? Thanks. -- ...

Bill Taylor of Hampton Hills was cruising down the lake with 10 family members aboard his boat when it happened. "The engine had been running fine. All of a sudden, it sputtered to a stop and refused ...

General Motors is pushing it. So are Daimler-Chrysler and Ford. And now, Wal-Mart may be about to jump on the E85 ethanol bandwagon as well. E85 ethanol, a mixture of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent ...

More problems of ethanol use in boats have been surfacing. For years, area boaters have been warned about using ethanol-blended gasoline in boats. That's because until the late 1990s, there weren't ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ethanol is far from a cure-all for the nation's energy problems. It's not as environmentally friendly as some supporters claim and would supply only 12 percent of U.S. motoring fuel ...