On my recent trip to Oregon, I asked a Texaco attendant if their fuels had alcohol in them, and he said just the mid-grade and premium. Regular he said is alcohol-free.  

I told him that when I was at the Arco station in Springfield a few days earlier, I asked the Arco pump man if they had any alcohol-free fuel, and he said all Arco grades have 10% alcohol. Thinking that my cutting out may be related to water in the gas, and knowing alcohol absorbs water, or is soluble with it, I decided to stop using Arco and go with Texaco and others. .

The Texaco attendant, at a station about 15-20 miles north of Eugene , told me something else that flipped my lid.  

He said that Arco "put" more water in their tanks than Texaco did. At least, that's what he had heard. I asked him twice- yes, he said, the stations add water to their gas. I asked the reason and he said the stations were "allowed" to add water to the gas, but he had heard that some Arco stations added  more .

 Then he told me of a customer that had to be towed in to have the tank drained-the reason it stalled: water in the gas from a valley Arco station.  

Are these  company indoctrination myths or have I been in seclusion too long and all of you are thinking "where have you been"? Everybody knows that!

Put water in the tanks? I am left to think that perhaps this part of Oregon is within the boundaries of the Twilight Zone. I have never heard or read that gas stations or companies deliberately ad water to the tanks.  

Honest, I did'nt bump my head or make this up to liven up the list discussions.  

Robert

1982 Westfalia

Robert  

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