[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Yet Oregon full-serve gasoline costs less per gallon than California self-serve, and your car will run better.

Sure, I'd rather save a few pennies and pump my own, but I'll take coerced pumping over Kalifornistan's rough-running bilgewater anyday.

[Clinging Bitterly]

> ...and your car will run better.

Huh? Because it's "professionally" pumped?

> Kalifornistan's rough-running bilgewater

Oh. You're talkin' about the "oxygenated" stuff?
We have the same stuff in Oregon during the cooler half of the year (right now). It does seem to hold a bit more water than the regular stuff. I discovered the hard way a few years back, when I had a long commute, that the oxygenated stuff delivers slightly lower miles per gallon. I could go to work and back two days on a tankful of the regular stuff, but when they switched to the winter blend it fell about 3 miles short (but at least it quit on me right in front of the golf course, so I was able to play the 19th hole while waiting).

Dave in Eugene