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- From: sheriffp@Software.Mitel.COM (Peter Sheriff)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Oxygenated Gasoline and Low MPG (super unleaded?)
- Message-ID: <13789@limey>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 16:33:12 GMT
- References: <4278.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us>
- Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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- In article <4278.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) writes:
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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.
- >
- > 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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