NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/seattle/general/3775

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From: [e-mail] (Dwight Johns)
Newsgroups: seattle.general
Subject: Re: Oxi-fuel
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Date: 20 Nov 92 14:10:52 GMT
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This may not be the correct answer but this is how it was explained to me, the
new gas around here contains alcohol and produces less carbon monoxide, it has
been in the midwest for many years, well anyway, since alcohol is a solvent
and we haven't had this sort of fuel around here before there was quite a bit
of junk (for lack of a better word) floating around in our gas, it would
settle to the bottom of the tank and not cause much of a problem.  The fuel
filter was supposed to take care of any of this that got into the fuel line,
well what's happening now is that solvent (alcohol) is mixing everything up so
the fuel filters on all our cars are getting plugged up from all this stuff
that used to sit harmlessly on the bottoms of our gas tanks, and the ones at
the stations, and their big trucks, and their storage tanks...

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