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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Local Cheap Gas Can (Will) Damage Fuel Injected Cars
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Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 14:17:02 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 15 14:17:02 1984
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Just out of rather amazed curiosity: Since the addition of alcohol to
gasoline has been an obvious trend for at least a decade now, due to
various energy crunch reasons, and since many countries, like Brazil,
are emphasizing total alcohol use for automotive fuel, why on earth
would ANY automobile manufacturer design and/or build cars with fuel
systems or components that could not handle alcohol?!?! I can understand
problems with older cars, but the net discussion seems to be based on
cars of recent vintage. Manufacturers should be expecting that any
vaguely flammable sludge would be making its way into the fuel tanks of
their vehicles; why would they build cars that can't handle the fuel
they will inevitably be consuming???!!!

Will