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echo: barktopus
to: Geo
from: Randy
date: 2006-05-02 20:34:04
subject: Re: Record fuel prices in the UK

From: Randy 

Geo wrote:
> "Don Hills"  wrote in message
> news:QCvVEtgaX6ub092yn{at}attglobal.net...
>
>> Maybe it's the way the US fuel is so cut with additives that there's
>> precious little left to burn? :-)
>
> That's actually a significant possibility. Our winter mix gives my truck
> 18.4mph, the summer mix about 20.5mpg and when we have a shortage I've seen
> a mix that gave me as much as 22.5mpg so definitely a huge difference in the
> fuel I've seen to say nothing about what is actually possible.
>
> There is a big thing going on here now where they are removing MTBE from
> fuel and I think the replacement is Methanol (of course this is being done
> so ADM can get their stickey fingers into the fuel market if for no other
> good reason)
>
> Geo.
>
>
Ethanol-Illinois has had 10% ethanol in its gas for quite a few years now.

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