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Posted by Allan/NCA on October 21, 2005 at 18:24:37 from (209.240.205.63):
In Reply to: CHEAP GAS! posted by JEFF P on October 21, 2005 at 08:57:01:
My Dad would talk about during WWII the gas was at times was so poor quality that the neighbor was constantly burning valves on an AC model M crawler. With the war valves were impossible to get so to keep the tractor running he would mix 1 gal of diesel to like 5 gal of gas and he did up into 60's when he retired even when the gas was better. I was told that it just didn't burn as hot. Well with the price of fuel that people are mixing cheap cooking oil with diesel to cut costs, I guess in Europe they have done it for years.
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