[spanalot]

"Something to note, their lowest standard of gas is 93 octane, our highest."

Leave it to jb6 to praise the virtues of still putting lead into gasoline.

[.cnI redruM]

It matches the paint chips they ate when they were kids.

[GSlob]

Actually, ages ago, the following barter trade was rather popular in Moscow environs: in exchange for technical alcohol automobile owners ("Lada" owners, who needed 93-gas) would acquire from the drivers of state-owned trucks their 76-octane gasoline. By adding to that 76- gasoline about 10-20g of technical naphthalene (moth balls) per liter [and need I point out that the naphthalene would also be filched from workplaces, just like technical alcohol was?] the octane number was driven into low 90s, and the resulting concoction was successfully used in those "Lada"s.

[jb6]

Leave it to jb6 to praise the virtues of still putting lead into gasoline.

And leave it Spanalot to once more prove he knows nothing. Russian gasoline is sold in Europe, the Germans removed lead from paint, gasoline, etc a long time before we did. The Soviets are gone, mind blasting concept for you I know, and with them most of their practices.