Ethanol - Savior of our future or killer of older cars?

Over at Boating Life I found this interesting article entitled "Deathanol" which points out some interesting facts about ethanol. Did you know that ethanol can absorb water from the air? This water, then lowers the performance of your gasoline powered engine. When used in older vehicles ethanol's, solvent capabilities will loosen rust, sludge and other contaminants in your tank hopefully just plugging your fuel filter, but possibly causing major carburetor or fuel injector problems. The expert interviewed for the article recommends that in vehicles that are seldom used, such as RVs, boats or ATVs you should use a non-alcohol-based fuel stabilizer. I don't know about you, but now I think I should check the fuel filter on my older truck, because I have noticed slightly lower performance since my local gas station started using 10% ethanol. Just a little heads up from your friendly neighborhood Ranter.