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From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Octane mixes...
Message-ID: <1720@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 16:00:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1720
Posted: Thu Oct  3 16:00:38 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 03:31:32 EDT
References: <173@cdstar.UUCP> <344@vaxwaller.UUCP>
Reply-To: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <344@vaxwaller.UUCP> les@vaxwaller.UUCP (Les Dittert) writes:

>> No, it's true. Mixing about 1 part regular leaded @ 88-89 octane
>> with 2 parts super unleaded @ 91-92 octane will give you gasoline
>> that is about 94-95 octane. Beware....it is leaded gas. I don't
>
>OK , if it is true , then why don't the oil companies mix the same
>potion and sell it to the public as leaded super ??? They try like
>hell to please the customer , and I know they could sell a lot
>of this 95 octane gas. The chemists that work for Chevron must be
>STUPID , if they have the ingredients for this high octane
>gas sitting in their own pumps......

In fact, they DO sell it that way.  For example, at least Canadian
Sunoco sells this type of high-octane leaded (actually 1 part regular
leaded, 1 part super unleaded).

>   ( in other words , it don't work. )

Actually, it does.  It doesn't mean that oil companies will sell it,
though, because demand for leaded premium is rather low.

				   \tom haapanen
				   watmath!watdcsu!haapanen
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