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Atl XJ said:
You know what, I'm not stupid and I figured it was a joke thats why I specifically asked if it was or not. I figured that when the president of NAXJA replied with what sounded like a serious response maybe there was some truth to it. I can do without this shit and I don't have time for it. :flamemad:
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Hey AtlXJ ... relax. Woody, though Pres. is just another guy in here. You never know, maybe he WAS serious about his "winter air"! :wow:

There is a lotta jokin' in here as well as good info. Then too, there is "bad" information too, so use the information you get wisely ... in another words ... research the best you can. We're all just regular guys here.

Les
 
lbexj said:
Hey AtlXJ ... relax. Woody, though Pres. is just another guy in here. You never know, maybe he WAS serious about his "winter air"! :wow:

There is a lotta jokin' in here as well as good info. Then too, there is "bad" information too, so use the information you get wisely ... in another words ... research the best you can. We're all just regular guys here.

Les
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Sorry I over reacted. I was totally spent yesterday, running on no sleep will do that to yah, and I took that way too seriously. Please ignore my previous statement. :anon: I don't know why I fell for that, I guess the whole lack of sleep deal. :dunno:
 
The 'Winter air' was just some leg pulling. On another track, need about 2 gallons of baffle cleaner, noticed a dead area in the rear so it's time to clean them out.... Looking for the best prices, been a while since I bought any...
 
Noticed the same here, starting 3 weeks to a month ago. It used to cost me 1/4 tank to drive down to my kid's place south of Denver, so I could pick them up and fart around the area all weekend and come home with about 1/4 tank left. These last several times I've noticed it's closer to 3/8 tank per leg of the journey, leaving me on 'E' as I pull into Ft Collins again. If I had money, I'd buy a Honda
 
I just drove from VT to Georgia, and got my usual 20-21 mpg along the way (that's running around 70 with bikes on the roof, and a lot of stuff in the car). Without the bikes I would expect to gain a couple of mpg.

Usually I would expect to get a little better mileage as the weather warms up, because of less cold warmup time, less 4WD time, and the fact that gas is usually pumped from cool underground tanks, so that it will expand a little when it gets warmed up.
 
We can all thank Al Gore for our MTBE polluted groundwater and crappy politics in general for moronic implimentation of rules with absolutely no science behind it. What a crock. :flamemad:
 
Ya, blame Al Gore for your MPGs... the fawker invented the internet, so blame him for your Netscape issues too.

Don't feel bad about getting your new pubes tweezed out on 1 April. You look better bald :eek:

Last thing I heard on the radio before leaving work was a weather report calling for a 6" snow... Fetched a blizzard-beer supply & rode home glad I didn't change the winter air out just yet: Set a couple ribeyes to thawing/taters to baking, did my little chores (cover up the veggie sprouts) then surfed up the local weather. I'd been hoodoo'd too. :cheers:

My junk pulled in 18.3 MPG between M & F if filling at a dissimilar pump counts. 15.5 gallons of NC $1.70 (87 oct spring gas) for 284.4 hilly country miles & only a few throttle-happy moments. YMMV :D
 
RichP said:
Alot of the locals here in PA have noticed radical decreases, talking 17mpg to 13 mpg, in MPG over the past two weeks for no aparent reason. I myself noticed a big increase but have been buying my gas in northern NJ where it's .15 cents a gallon cheaper and not in Pa. I also see mobil state testing done on a regular basis in NJ which I have never seen done in Pa. Just a heads up if you notice a sudden decrease in milage, it may not be your rides fault... For all intents and purposes the winter fuel should be ending this week, 01APR, and normal fuel being supplied so the winter mix/summer mix will no longer be an excuse.
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If I use MOBIL 1 will my mpg go up by a factor of 3? Thats what I heard anyhow? lol

Chewy
 
woody said:
Pardn me for being a chemistry-challenged maroon, but how exactly is this MTBE polluting the water? Is it some tailpipe-emitted condensate that effects runoff? Is it coming from maroons spilling their petrol at the pump? Is it leaching from the gas-station tanks?

If the effect is bad, I am sure there is a prospective cause. Clue me in.

<edit> Winter air is really bad for tires. I have 5 Jeeps (25 tires) needing the air changed out...<edit>
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Leaky gas station tanks. A really bad case happened right at Lake Tahoe, the PUD had to shut down about half their wells.

Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether is nasty stuff, and you can taste it in your water at the parts per billion level.

CRASH
 
We got rid of MTBE here in colorado not because of the polluted groundwater (tastee!) but because the gasoline distributors were tired of every rubber and plastic fitting on every tanker needing changing after 60 days...they started a lobby campain to end the addition of MTBE and got the envirolobby behind them....then came the real science...MTBE caused More pollution because more fuel was being burned to propel a given car a given distance...(sounds eerily familiar).
 
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