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- From: das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: seattle.general
- Subject: Re: Your Mileage May Vary
- Keywords: Gasahol, mileage
- Message-ID: <3371@voodoo.UUCP>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:03:45 GMT
- References: <4299@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
- Sender: news@voodoo.UUCP
- Organization: Yet Another Graphics Project, Bellevue, WA
- Lines: 21
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- In article <4299@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> gee7759@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Glenn Elliott) writes:
- >
- >Has anyone actually experienced a drop in mileage? If so, are you
- >sure it isn't normal? (My winter mileage is normally about 1 MPG
- >lower than my summer mileage, which I attribute to the apparent
- >inability of Washington drivers to cope with rain, which causes that
- >wonderful stop-and-go traffic on the freeways to get worse.)
- >
- According to a Texaco brochure:
-
- Post-1980 model vehicles with oxygen sensors and computer controls typically
- experience a fuel economy loss of 1.5% - 2.0%. This equates to around
- 1/2 mile per gallon. Older vehicles may actually gain in fuel economy
- because they have richer fuel mixtures.
-
-
- The brochure answers a lot of other questions (although in fairly general
- terms) about the new fuel, and they're available at Texaco stations.
-
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- Debbie Schwartz // das@voodoo.ca.boeing.com // ....uw-beaver!bcsaic!voodoo!das
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