Ethanol Was: Re: Re[2]: SBEC REBATE

From: Jon Steiger (stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 12 1998 - 14:42:18 EDT


At 09:43 AM 8/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
><running with 91 octane...
>
>In South Dakota and much of the Mid-West, they have a 10% ethanol blend which
>was the 91 octane. Gas prices were always the same as 87 octane cuz they
>wanted you to buy it (corn belt).
>I think this 10% blend runs just as well as premium w/o the premium price. I
>just wish the rest of the world would catch on. Cant find it on the right
>coast.
>Boog
>

  One thing that I don't like is the smell... On a trip to Oshkosh
one year, I (unknowingly) filled up with an ethanol blend and my truck
stank to high heaven until it worked its way through.

                                               -Jon-

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