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To: mamelukesabre; Repeal The 17th

I am stunned.

I just looked at wiki and they say you are correct. When I was a kid, I used to live next to a guy who owned the neighborhood gas station. He told me ethyl grade gas was called that for “ethyl alcohol” which was the old fashioned chemistry name for ethanol. He told me they got the idea from the old moonshiners who would fill their tanks with moonshine to make their cars go faster to evade the revenuers. Seemed logical to me since there is a whole class of drag racing who burn only alcohol(faster than gasoline but slower than top fuel).

I’ve been re-telling this to people for over 30 years and you are the first person EVER to call me out on it.


61 posted on 05/16/2012 4:23:56 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre

Good on ya’ mamel.
Too many people now a days refuse to admit when they are wrong.
FReep on, brother!


62 posted on 05/16/2012 4:38:42 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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