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Date:         Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:54:10 -0800
Reply-To:     Leon Korkin <korkwood@WSHOST.NET>
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From:         Leon Korkin <korkwood@WSHOST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Water deliberately added to gasoline?
In-Reply-To:  <BA1B49D5.B7E%mwmiller@cwnet.com>
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12/10/02 7:35:49 AM, Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM> wrote:

>Why not water in the gas? The markets are allowed to add water to the meat >they sell plus several other additives without having to list them on the >ingredients. Now can we move on to the lumber industry? How big are 2"x4"s >these days?

Isn't it great they are not sold by weight?... Leon

> > >On 12/10/02 12:35 AM, "Aristotle Sagan" <killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote: > >> Robert, >> Do you walk with a limp these days? >> >> There may be water in any fuel tank, life being how it is. Do you realy >> think they would be allowed to put water into a gas tank on purpose? >> >> This is worse than the rumour that George Bush actually won the election in >> 2000. >> >> Go back to sleep and dream something else up. >> >> >> My opinion... Chevron has the best gas with additives, Texaco next. I still >> dislike all major oil companies for thier environmental policies but what >> can you do? >> >> tim ijn san jose >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> From: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM> >>> Reply-To: warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM >>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >>> Subject: Water deliberately added to gasoline? >>> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 23:35:51 -0800 >>> >>> On my recent trip to Oregon, I asked a Texaco attendant if their fuels >>> had alcohol in them, and he said just the mid-grade and premium. Regular he >>> said is alcohol-free. >>> >>> I told him that when I was at the Arco station in Springfield a few days >>> earlier, I asked the Arco pump man if they had any alcohol-free fuel, and >>> he said all Arco grades have 10% alcohol. Thinking that my cutting out may >>> be related to water in the gas, and knowing alcohol absorbs water, or is >>> soluble with it, I decided to stop using Arco and go with Texaco and >>> others. . >>> >>> The Texaco attendant, at a station about 15-20 miles north of Eugene , told >>> me something else that flipped my lid. >>> >>> He said that Arco "put" more water in their tanks than Texaco did. At >>> least, that's what he had heard. I asked him twice- yes, he said, the >>> stations add water to their gas. I asked the reason and he said the >>> stations were "allowed" to add water to the gas, but he had heard that some >>> Arco stations added more . >>> >>> Then he told me of a customer that had to be towed in to have the tank >>> drained-the reason it stalled: water in the gas from a valley Arco station. >>> >>> Are these company indoctrination myths or have I been in seclusion too >>> long and all of you are thinking "where have you been"? Everybody knows >>> that! >>> >>> Put water in the tanks? I am left to think that perhaps this part of Oregon >>> is within the boundaries of the Twilight Zone. I have never heard or read >>> that gas stations or companies deliberately ad water to the tanks. >>> >>> Honest, I did'nt bump my head or make this up to liven up the list >>> discussions. >>> >>> >>> Robert >>> >>> 1982 Westfalia >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Robert >>> >>> >>> 1982 WestfaliaHolen Sie mehr aus dem Web. Unter >>> http://explorer.msn.de/intl.asp#de gibt es einen KOSTENLOSEN Download von >>> MSN Explorer. >> >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* >> http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus >> > >


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