We have a serious problem with penguins falling into our fuel tanks here and
contaminating things - the better filling stations have those sticky penguin
strips to keep them out of the fuel... sorry about the troubles you were
having.  :-)

I used to live in Nova Scotia and there are some stations that I would stay
away from for that reason.  I had a similar experience going to Washington
so I don't think it is a Canada only thing.  As always, I go to filling
stations that are busy and that are brand name.  I mainly stick to Petro
Canada or Chevron.  I've never had a bad experience like that in BC or AB,
both of my two current gasoline powered VWs have never skipped a beat and
unfortunately they drink their fair share of fuel.

David Marshall

Fast Forward Automotive Inc.
4356 Quesnel-Hixon Road
Quesnel BC Canada  V2J 6Z3

http://www.fastforward.ca    mailto:sales@fastforward.ca
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of ROBERT DONALDS
Sent: November 5, 2003 4:32 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Canadian gas vs lower 48 states gas

Fellow listees
I want to hear from anybody who travels back and forth from the states to
Canada or vise versa about there experience with the two fuels. This past
summer I traveled to Amherst Nova Scotia and I made it on one tank of Texaco
gas I filled up just before I crossed over the border. I filled the tank in
Amherst NS with Erving gas as I recall and had to add 10 dollars Canadian to
make it back to the same Texaco station. The power was down and the now
famous Ken Lewis O2 monitor had to be pinned to keep the vanagon moving at
the pace I am acustomed to (75 to 80 MPH). Also this past week I had a
customer with a classic 71 bus call me from Canada and tell me the van was
skipping at highway speeds after about the first 1/2 hour of driving he
admitted to going faster than I recommended but this skipping as not
happening in the states the engine had a few thousand miles on it
any thoughts

going faster miles an hours
I remain
Bob Donalds
Boston Engine Exchange
http://www.bostonengine.com