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- From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
- Subject: White gas (was: Re: Riding with Gas)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.180452.11122@i88.isc.com>
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- Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
- References: <1992Nov11.190254.8516@rtsg.mot.com> <Bxx74B.8HI@world.std.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:04:52 GMT
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- In article <Bxx74B.8HI@world.std.com> kdg@world.std.com (Keith D Gregory) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov11.190254.8516@rtsg.mot.com> svoboda@rtsg.mot.com
- >(David Svoboda) writes:
- >>
- >>I have thought of taking along a quart or so of gasoline as an emergency
- >>fuel when I go on long tours. What is the net.consensus on what would be the
- >>best container for that, and where it would be best to put the container.
- >>The best thought I have is one of those spun aluminum camp fuel bottles,
- >>strapped somewhere on the back of the motorcycle.
- >
- >It'd work. Just keep it out of the sunlight to minimize evaporation.
- >
- >I base this belief on the perhaps equally incorrect belief that "white gas"
- >is ineed gasoline, without the various additives and what not that are used
- >for engines.
-
- White gas, as I understood it when we used to buy it all the time, was
- gasoline with no antiknock additives. Probably means the octane rating
- is low - anyone know exactly?
-
- Coleman fuel (or generic "camp stove fuel") is supposedly white gas
- with additives to keep the burner clean.
-
- I'm wondering if, in an emergency, a gallon of stove fuel with some
- lead substitute would work as a motor fuel.
-
-
- BTW, anyone else have the new "Amoco Clear" gas in your markets yet?
- The advertising claims it's "purer", which is of course "proven" by
- the fact that it's clear. The fact that most auto gas is amber because
- of the amber dye added to it for identification is ignored in the
- advertisements.
-
- Personally, I'm mad as hell about this stuff. It's an aircraft fueling
- accident waiting to happen. (Or do they neutralize the dye at the
- individual stations? The red and blue dyes in 80 and 100LL avgas are
- designed to turn clear when mixed - maybe the amber does as well - in
- which case, they are making it clear by adding more impurities.
- Anyone know for sure?)
- --
- Jonathan E. Quist INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
- jeq@i88.isc.com '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep", DoD #094 Naperville, IL
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