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- From: apuzzo@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Tony Apuzzo)
- Subject: Re: Oxygenated Gasoline and Low MPG
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.200534.27391@colorado.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:05:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.015926.4003@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> lungtt@gus.ecn.purdue.edu (Terence T. Lung) writes:
- >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
-
- Here in the wonderfully progressive Denver Metro Area (Home of the soon
- to be U.S. Transportation Chief, former Denver Mayor Federico Pena.)
- We've been forced to use "oxygenated" fuels for several years. My 87
- Integra drops from 31 to 28 (season averages) immediately when the oxy
- fuels go in the tank.
-
- It's too bad that cars that are running well get little benefit from
- the fuels. Poorly tuned old clunkers get better emmissions, but they
- still put out more pollution than they would if tuned well and running
- on normal gasoline. Gee, maybe we should legislate properly tuned
- cars, rather than wasteful, misguided attacks on the free market.
- Oops, that last sentence sounds like a flame, sorry.
-
- -Tony
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