Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 18:17:02 -0800
Reply-To: Mark Tuovinen <mst@AK.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Mark Tuovinen <mst@AK.NET>
Subject: Re: Canadian gas vs lower 48 states gas and penguins
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Come on guys, Penguins are native to all major land masses in the Southern hemisphere, not just Antarctica. The northern most live on the Galapogos Islands.
Re the difference between US market fuel and Canadian. I noticed no difference in driveability traveling from Berekeley, California through Canada and home to Anchorage, AK. As for mileage differences I cannot say without breaking out the milepost and checking distances between fill ups. Thanks to our odometer we recorded only 2 miles on the trip, though we purchased a lot of fuel. Guess that means our gas mileage was pretty bad! As other have pointed out, terrain can make a big difference also. Our trip was through mountainous areas which will burn fuel faster than then flat land.
Mark in AK
----- Original Message -----
From: Alfred Bagdan <abagdan@SHAW.CA>
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2003 8:57 am
Subject: Re: Canadian gas vs lower 48 states gas and penguins
> New Found Land to Ice Land to Green Land and as far east as Scott
> Land you
> say?
> What about the Pits Burg Pen Guins? Aren't they Americ Ans?
> I read once that one of them has a Van A Gon. Is it Lemieux, a
> French Ca Na
> Dian?
>
> Al Fred
> 85 Wes Ty
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Marshall" <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Canadian gas vs lower 48 states gas and penguins
>
>
> > Playing on the 'typical Canuck' stereotype mixed with some Gary
> Larson> humour - sorry about that! Actually, penguins as of 1844
> are exclusively
> > South Pole creatures. North America's penguin, the Great Auk
> was hunted
> to
> > extinction in 1844 with the last pair existing in Ice Land.
> It's range
> was
> > from Newfoundland to Ice Land to Green Land and as far east as
> Scotland at
> > one time. None of the Auks or their hunters drove Vanagons
> (necessary> Vanagon content rules).
> >
> > David Marshall
> >
> > Fast Forward Automotive Inc.
> > 4356 Quesnel-Hixon Road
> > Quesnel BC Canada V2J 6Z3
> >
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> >
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> >
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> > in one message and will result in quicker and more accurate
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> > Of Damon Campbell
> > Sent: November 5, 2003 9:24 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Canadian gas vs lower 48 states gas
> >
> >
> > Aren't penguins from the south pole? Or is Quesnel
> > just a little backwards?
> >
> > Bob, i've actually kept a bit of an eye out for this
> > and havn't really noticed the dramatic effects you
> > mentioned over here in BC. The only overt difference
> > that i know of is that a couple brands (Mowhawk in
> > particular) puts some ethanol and a couple other
> > things to make their gas more "environmentally
> > friendly". I use that stuff, and havn't had any
> > problems yet. Honestly, though, i really havn't been
> > driving much, so i havn't gotten a good feel for the
> > fuel economy average yet.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > -Damon
> >
> >
> > --- David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG> wrote:
> > > We have a serious problem with penguins falling into
> > > our fuel tanks here and
> > > contaminating things - the better filling stations
> > > have those sticky penguin
> > > strips to keep them out of the fuel... sorry about
> > > the troubles you were
> > > having. :-)
> > >
> > > I used to live in Nova Scotia and there are some
> > > stations that I would stay
> > > away from for that reason. I had a similar
> > > experience going to Washington
> > > so I don't think it is a Canada only thing. As
> > > always, I go to filling
> > > stations that are busy and that are brand name. I
> > > mainly stick to Petro
> > > Canada or Chevron. I've never had a bad experience
> > > like that in BC or AB,
> > > both of my two current gasoline powered VWs have
> > > never skipped a beat and
> > > unfortunately they drink their fair share of fuel.
> > > Of ROBERT DONALDS
> > > Subject: Canadian gas vs lower 48 states gas
> > >
> > > Fellow listees
> > > I want to hear from anybody who travels back and
> > > forth from the states to
> > > Canada or vise versa about there experience with the
> > > two fuels. This past
> > > summer I traveled to Amherst Nova Scotia and I made
> > > it on one tank of Texaco
> > > gas I filled up just before I crossed over the
> > > border. I filled the tank in
> > > Amherst NS with Erving gas as I recall and had to
> > > add 10 dollars Canadian to
> > > make it back to the same Texaco station. The power
> > > was down and the now
> > > famous Ken Lewis O2 monitor had to be pinned to keep
> > > the vanagon moving at
> > > the pace I am acustomed to (75 to 80 MPH). Also this
> > > past week I had a
> > > customer with a classic 71 bus call me from Canada
> > > and tell me the van was
> > > skipping at highway speeds after about the first 1/2
> > > hour of driving he
> > > admitted to going faster than I recommended but this
> > > skipping as not
> > > happening in the states the engine had a few
> > > thousand miles on it
> > > any thoughts
> > >
> > > going faster miles an hours
> > > I remain
> > > Bob Donalds
> > > Boston Engine Exchange
> > > http://www.bostonengine.com
> >
> >
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