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echo: oldcars
to: I.J.BARTINO
from: DON DELLMANN
date: 1996-06-30 11:54:00
subject: Re: Oil additives

While tripping merrily through the mail, I.J.Bartino was overheard
 DD> And in my '83 Chrysler with a 318 "Lean Burn" V-8, ethanol DROPS the 
highwa
 DD> milage from 18 to 12mpg.  (not to mention how it eats fuel pumps, and we 
 DD> don't have a choice, we're in a Federally mandated "reformulated fuel" 
area
 I.> you're in ca too? 
No, Wisconsin.  California doesn't have a monopoly on stupid laws to hurt
old car afficianados.
I didn't even mention how the ethanol causes "vapor lock" in the fuel
lines on hot days.
The government won't be happy until the only cars on the roads are the
US equivalent of the Trabant or Yugo.
Don
... The trouble with apathy these days is nobody cares.
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