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OK, I'm really dating myself here, but I lived in Lawndale, Cafifornia 
in the early 60's and in 1965 there were 2 gas stations on the corner of 
my street in gas wars, and their signs said .099 per gallon!
mopar383fury@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Gas was .55-.65 a gallon????  When was this mythical time? I thought it 
> was only in legend, myth, and song!  Cheapest I ever remember was .99 in 
> 1999 here in California. I miss those days!  
> 
> Dodge recommends 89 for my 08 Hemi, I use 87 and see no difference. 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bailey <bb64d440@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:02:18 
> To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Speaking o f gasoline
>  
> 
> 
> 
> ...I only buy brand (new) name gasoline for my cars but I will use the 
> off brand (second hand) gas in my lawn equipment. Why? 
>  
>  I put the last 30 years of my working career employed by a liquid 
>  petroleum pipeline company as a mechanic servicing pumps, motors valves 
>  etc all relating to the safe movement and handling of liquid petroleum 
>  products. This, by no means makes me any kind of authority on fossil 
>  fuels or the production of gasoline, but over the years I?ve seen how 
>  petroleum products are handled in a pipeline and at storage facilities. 
>  I found it absolutely fascinating and my hats off to the people that 
>  operate these systems. My point of all this is that all gasoline is 
>  transported VIA pipeline from refineries to their respective 
>  distribution points and then trucked to the sales stations. These 
>  pipelines do not only carry gasoline but also other similar petroleum 
>  products, home heating oil, diesel, etc (yes, in the same pipe at the 
>  same time). These liquids do not mix per say while in the pipeline 
>  because they are under constant pressure. However, there is a small 
>  amount of what?s known as ?transmix? (the tail end of one batch against 
>  the head end of the following batch), which normally does occur in the 
>  line.  This transmix is cut out of the stream and stored in separate 
>  tankage. Eventually you end up with a full tank of ?accumulated 
>  transmix? product, what do you with this stuff? It gets pumped 
>  separately to a refractory, which re-refines or separates the different 
>  products back to ?useable? fuels once again. Hey, this is a good thing 
>  right? Well, I agree to a certain extent. I remember ?back in the day? 
>  when brand name gas sold for say .95 per gallon while down the road was 
>  a cheap ?no name? station selling gas for .55 or .65 cents a gal. How 
>  could they do that? Like I said, I?m no expert but I?d bet they were 
>  selling refracted gasoline but at an honest price. You got what you paid 
>  for and it worked. Performance didn?t matter and so what if it smoked a 
>  little more, it was cheap. So what are these no name gas stations 
>  selling today at very nearly the same cost as branded gas? Well, I can?t 
>  say for sure but that is my opinion of no name fuels and why I will only 
>  buy brand new gas for my cars. I cringe every time I see a classic 
>  muscle car filling up at a no name station! UGH!     
> Dave
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Jeff Adams
64 Polara


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