[net.auto] Amoco Premium Gasoline

prophet@umcp-cs.UUCP (07/10/84)

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Does anyone have any kind of a list that tells which major brands of gas have
methanol in them, and which ones do not?  I am surprised to learn that  Amoco
is using Methanol in their premium unleaded, I have been using it  because  I
thought it was a high-quality gasoline that did not use any of the cheap  in-
gredients found in other brands of gas...Perhaps this has changed?

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marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand) (07/17/84)

Dennis Gibbs suggests that methanol is a cheap ingredient - in a recent
article on NPR (All Things Considered) they said that alcohol was a
rather expensive anti-knock ingredient.   I'm not clear as to whether
we are talking about methanol or ethanol here, but presumably the
manufacturing costs are similar.  (Don't we use methanol to keep the
fuel dry in midwinter?)

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