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- From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
- Subject: Re: Oxygenated Gasoline and Low MPG
- Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:11:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.015926.4003@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> lungtt@gus.ecn.purdue.edu (Terence T. Lung) writes:
- >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?
-
- As I have been buying US gas exclusively for the last 5 years, I am also
- interested in how gas is being monkey'd with these days. Today I heard
- that 31 states are using ethanol in their gas during the winter months
- (it was a TV commercial, I think it was ADM (supermarket to the world
- commercial) they were extolling how their product helps grow corn so
- american farmers can become texas oilmen or some such noise).
-
- Also, Ammoco is adversising a "clean" gas, ie extra filtered, so it
- burns cleaner (TV commercial has lots of beakers and flasks with clean
- gas and dirty gas in them, etc). Any info if this "clean" gas is easier
- on your engine? Oh yea, this "Clean" gas was clear as water, but here
- in Ontario, a jar of gas has a vivid yellow, while Michigan gas has a
- reddish color to it. Is there anything to this coloring? Can it be
- counteracted (ie what can make red colored gas look yellow?)
-