You don't see my point, for many years our "old Clunkers" worked just fine, until those idiots decided to "reduce our dependence on foreign oil" by adding ethanol to the gas without doing any research.
Now not only are we importing foreign oil we are importing ethanol why? because there is no facility on the island to manufacture it. So now we got higher prices for gas, reduced mileage , boaters stuck in the middle of the ocean, and we have to rebuild our equipment.
Why?

No one knows! Because the rest of the country is using it is not a good reason. In case you haven't noticed on your trip(s) here our prices are high enough with out unnecessarily inflating them further.