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- From: lungtt@gus.ecn.purdue.edu (Terence T. Lung)
- Subject: Oxygenated Gasoline and Low MPG
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.015926.4003@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Sender: news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news)
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 01:59:26 GMT
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- A recent San Jose Mercury News article mentioned the complaints
- of motorists about an especially oxygenated gasoline that's
- being pumped everywhere in California. Their MPGs have gone down
- anywhere from 5 to 25 [!]%. Taxi companies are complaining.
-
- The idea was supposed to lower pollution. It sounds to me like
- a ploy that results in 5 to 25% more gasoline burned per mile.
-
- Where else is this happening? The paper vaguely mentions 35
- other places across the country but does not say where.
- What times of the year is this stuff being introduced?
- just winter time?
-
- I wonder if I got suckered by this stuff this last time that
- I strangely ran out of gas [not fun] around 410 instead of my usual
- 500+ miles between refuelings.[in a happy '88 Ford Escort]
-
- out in Indiana,
- Terence
-