New Found Land to Ice Land to Green Land and as far east as Scott Land you
say?
What about the Pits Burg Pen Guins? Aren't they Americ Ans?
I read once that one of  them has a Van A Gon. Is it Lemieux, a French Ca Na
Dian?

Al Fred
85 Wes Ty

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Marshall" <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: Canadian gas vs lower 48 states gas and penguins

> Playing on the 'typical Canuck' stereotype mixed with some Gary Larson
> humour - sorry about that!  Actually, penguins as of 1844 are exclusively
> South Pole creatures.  North America's penguin, the Great Auk was hunted
to
> extinction in 1844 with the last pair existing in Ice Land.  It's range
was
> from Newfoundland to Ice Land to Green Land and as far east as Scotland at
> one time.  None of the Auks or their hunters drove Vanagons (necessary
> Vanagon content rules).
>
> David Marshall
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Damon Campbell
> Sent: November 5, 2003 9:24 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Canadian gas vs lower 48 states gas
>
>
> Aren't penguins from the south pole?  Or is Quesnel
> just a little backwards?
>
> Bob, i've actually kept a bit of an eye out for this
> and havn't really noticed the dramatic effects you
> mentioned over here in BC.  The only overt difference
> that i know of is that a couple brands (Mowhawk in
> particular) puts some ethanol and a couple other
> things to make their gas more "environmentally
> friendly".  I use that stuff, and havn't had any
> problems yet.  Honestly, though, i really havn't been
> driving much, so i havn't gotten a good feel for the
> fuel economy average yet.
>
> Hope that helps,
> -Damon
>
>
> --- David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG> wrote:
> > 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.
> > Of ROBERT DONALDS
> > 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
>
>
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