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Date:         Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:02:57 -0600
Reply-To:     Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Fryeday Question
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If this has been mentioned before--sorry, I missed it. I just heard a discussion on the news this evening re BioPerformance Fuel - a pill you drop in your gas tank for better mileage. Sounds like snake oil to me. Anyone tried this?

yeah, but we called them 'mothballs'. :) no really. the naphta or whatever that's in mothballs boosts the octane a mite. old trick from back in the 40's. trouble is, you put too much in there, and you can burn a piston. :( not really worth the effort. http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem00/chem00485.htm a different view ... http://www.georgenitta.com/mothballs/mothballs.htm

me, personally, i wouldn't try it. i dimly recall someone in high school who lunched his engine after dumping a box of moth balls into his gas tank. now, whether it was the moth balls that did it, i can't say. after all, it was kinda an old car. but very shortly after he put the moth balls into the tank, he was walking to school. :)

good luck! joel


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