Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site t4test.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!intelca!t4test!shilo From: shilo@t4test.UUCP (Shilo Jennings) Newsgroups: net.auto.tech Subject: Re: gas and octane rating Message-ID: <1584@t4test.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 14:34:55 EST Article-I.D.: t4test.1584 Posted: Thu Oct 31 14:34:55 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 02:08:59 EST References: <1740@akgua.UUCP> <486@ttidcb.UUCP> Organization: Intel Peripheral Comp Mfg, Santa Clara Lines: 26 Summary: jerks on the net [FLAME ONNNNNNNN] someone wrote: > >MYTH: HI-Test (high octane) gasoline burns faster and is more powerful > >than regular. to which something replied: > If its not more powerful, then why does it give better gas mileage? DID ANYONE SAY IT DID, OR BETTER YET PROVE AT? THAT'S RIDICULOUS ditto: > >Low octane gas burns too fast a must be retared by the addition of > >compounds like tetraethyl lead or branched chain hydrocarbons. > > What does lead have to do with increasing the octane? You said octane was an > indication of the number of branched chain hydrocarbons. Does adding lead > increase the number of branched chain hydrocarbons? YOU OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T READ THIS GUYS ARTICLE VERY WELL DID YOU? HE EVEN DREW A PICTURE OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THET DO THIS ! Sorry for the flame but it burns me up when people don't pay attention to what they are doing, or comment on something they know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about( as the guy who replied here ). If you really want to question this guys authority, please keep it in the mail. PLEASE KEEP THIS KIND OF GARBAGE OUT OF THE NEWS, and I will keep THIS kind of garbage out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks, -scj-