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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

I have several cars that would prove this incorrect.

And actually the octane is very carefully monitored as a lack of it can
contribute to spontaneous detonation.

Octane, despite popular belief to the contrary, is a detonation inhibitor.
It actually prevents or curbs some of the volatility of gasoline.  Increased
octane allows an engine to apply a higher amount of pressure to the gas/air
mixture before spontaneous detonation occurs.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K. Jo Garner" <kelly AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/";
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Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] price of gasoline


> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Ken VanDine wrote:
> ->the Texaco and he told me the truck they expected in didn't come and
they were
> ->dry.  So, I went outside and took the yellow cover off the regular
nozzle and
> ->pumped... I got a full tank out of it... The clerk asked me to leave
when I
> ->accused him of conspiring with the Shell station :-)
>
> this only bolsters my claim that octane really is arbitrary and it's all
> coming out of the same tank underground. :)
>
> cheers
> KJ
>
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