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From: saltiel@cdstar.UUCP (Jack Saltiel)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Octane mixes...
Message-ID: <183@cdstar.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 21:45:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: cdstar.183
Posted: Mon Oct  7 21:45:20 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Oct-85 06:47:41 EDT
References: <173@cdstar.UUCP> <344@vaxwaller.UUCP>
Organization: Cambridge Digital Systems, Inc.
Lines: 36
Summary: Escalating cost of gas station equipment...

In article <344@vaxwaller.UUCP>, les@vaxwaller.UUCP (Les Dittert) writes:
> > >   I have heard that mixing gasolines with different octane ratings
> > > has a funny effect on the rating of the mix.  For example, mixing
> > 
> > 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 other words , it don't work. )
  
The chemist's aren't STUPID, the business people are the ones who
have stopped it. Originally most gas stations sold one or two
grades of leaded gas. When unleaded was introduced station owners,
or the oil companies who owned their own could either put in
another tank and more pumps or discontinue one of their other
grades. When super unleaded came around, they were faced with the
choice again. Today, given the choice between four tanks and all
the pumps and islands and real estate, most stations have limited
the choice to three grades of gas, some to only two. Super
unleaded is needed the least (today) so it got the boot first!

	( in other words, it do work. )
	( I used the same brand of logic for my conclusion :-)!)
-- 
					Jack Saltiel
					Cambridge Digital Systems
					{wjh12,talcott}!cdstar!saltiel

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