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From: colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: gas prices dropping where you live
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Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 10:27:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 11 10:27:19 1986
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> > In the Denver area (at least Southeast Denver), prices have fallen
> > on average 6-7 cents in the last 2 weeks.  The lowest I have seen
> > leaded regular is 92.9 cents, while Unleaded regular runs just a
> > but over a dollar. (Today I paid $1.019 cash for a tank full at
> > Amoco).  (That is for a gallon, not for a whole tank.)
> 
> Gas prices here have fallen off too.  I know that it is still
> expensive according to the rest of the contiguous 48 but the
> prices are great for NY.  regular  1.03
>                          unleaded  1.10
>                    super unleaded  1.17

In the Buffalo area, prices are 3-6 cents higher.  Moreover, much
of the gasoline here is heavily adulterated with methyl alcohol.
You could probably get rich by inventing a cheap kit for measuring
the methanol content of gasoline.  (I'd buy two!)
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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