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- Subject: Oxygenated Gasoline and Low MPG
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- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 3 Jan 93 20:09:00 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
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- -> 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.
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- Yep. And lots of MTBE advocates still claim there's no drop in
- mileage, or even that they get better mileage. Meanwhile, many of us
- have cars that won't even *run* on the stuff, much less get reasonable
- mileage.
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- With the varying mixtures of low-grade fermented dinosaur droppings,
- MTBE, alcohol, and camel urine currently sold as "gasoline", fuel
- economy and driveability vary widely.
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- By the way, the requirements for gasoline used for NHTSA fuel economy
- tests and EPA smog tests are throughly specified, and it's nothing like
- what you can buy at the pump in 1993.
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