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- Subject: Re: Oxygenated Gasoline and Low MPG (super unleaded?)
- Message-ID: <4278.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us>
- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 5 Jan 93 00:56:00 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
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- -> I'm just tuning in so spare me. I've heard that this oxygenated
- -> gasoline
- -> is the same stuff you could buy at the cheaper gas stations
- -> (Speedway, Gastown) before. That is that all it is is regular
- -> unleaded gas mixed with 10% ethanol.
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- Oxygenated fuel is blended with a compound called MTBE, which is
- somethingorother <mumble> ether. It's also often blended with alcohol
- as well, but the alcohol is not part of what makes it "oxygenated."
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