I never used Stabil in any my 2 stroke gas engines, and never had an issue. Echo leaf blower and weed wacker and John Deer snow blower starts fine, after sitting close to a year. I am just down the road from you, and all I use is 87 octane fuel from Sunoco or Marathon and mix with Echo 2 power blend oil. Echo does have a fuel stabilizer that is built in. I store them in Polyethylene (plastic) cans. Never have an issue with them.
Perhaps it is where you buy your fuel.
Jeff
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