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- From: eeng@tc.fluke.COM (Ed Eng)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: New Gasoline Ripoff
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.152025.632@tc.fluke.COM>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 15:20:25 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.121946.1072@newstand.syr.edu> <1992Nov5.135758.20536@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> <Bx9C7B.1As@ssesco.com>
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- Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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- In article <Bx9C7B.1As@ssesco.com> nau@ssesco.com (William Nau) writes:
- >
- >>You are wrong -- alcohol is more expensive than the gas.
- >>Remember the actual cost of the gasoline is NOT the ~$1.20
- >>you pay for it at the station. My memory tells me that the
- >>actual cost (out of the refinery) is closer to $.60-$.80/gal.
- >>(or even less, since there are typically $.30 in taxes).
- >
- >You may be right, but this does not explain why before the alchol
- >based fuels were REQUIRED, it usually cost several cents less.
- >If it cost less before, why does it cost more now. I see it as
- >becaues they can get away with it. In this state (MN) we have
- >no problem producing enough grain to keep up with production. They
- >can't blame it on that.
- >
- >William R. Nau
-
- I vaguely recall an article in this newsgroup a few months back which stated
- that ARCO gas is a mixture of 10% alcohol. The author explained that buying
- ARCO gas because it was cheaper was false economy because it is less efficient.
- So, is this 10% alcohol mixture for winter the same stuff ARCO sells? ARCO
- stations have put stickers on their pumps but is the gas really different?
- Is that author out there?
-