12/10/02 7:35:49 AM, Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM> wrote:

>Why not water in the gas?  The markets are allowed to add water to the meat
>they sell plus several other additives without having to list them on the
>ingredients.  Now can we move on to the lumber industry?  How big are 2"x4"s
>these days?

Isn't it great they are not sold by weight?...
Leon

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>On 12/10/02 12:35 AM, "Aristotle Sagan" <killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> Robert,
>> Do you walk with a limp these days?
>>
>> There may be water in any fuel tank, life being how it is. Do you realy
>> think they would be allowed to put water into a gas tank on purpose?
>>
>> This is worse than the rumour that George Bush actually won the election in
>> 2000.
>>
>> Go back to sleep and dream something else up.
>>
>>
>> My opinion... Chevron has the best gas with additives, Texaco next. I still
>> dislike all major oil companies for thier environmental policies but what
>> can you do?
>>
>> tim ijn san jose
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>>> From: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
>>> Reply-To: warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM
>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>> Subject: Water deliberately added to gasoline?
>>> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 23:35:51 -0800
>>>
>>>  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
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
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